Bengali's neglected wife grows fond of his cousin. Criterion Collection Year 1964 Video Release 2013-08-20 Studio Image International Genre Drama MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Black and White Runtime 117 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis This film about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning by Satyajit Ray The Music Room is set in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India. It takes place in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely, stifled wife, Charulata The Big City's Madhabi Mukherjee , whose exquisitely composed features mask a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him to pursue her own writing and dangerously drawn to him physically. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, CHARULATA is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice. Director Satyajit Ray Cast Satyajit Ray; Soumitra Chatterjee; Madhabi Mukherjee; Sailen Mukherjee; Shyamal Ghosal; Gitali Roy; Bholanath Koyal; Suku Mukherjee; Dilip Bose; Joydeb; Bankim Ghosh