The Music Room (Jalsaghar)

1958 – 100 min – Original version w. FR subs

Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Padma Devi, Pinaki Sengupta, Gangapada Basu…

With this film Satyajit Ray reaches a melancholy beauty and delivers a reflection on a world that is engulfed. Bengal in the 1920s. An aristocrat and large landowner, a zamindar, spent most of his life satisfying his passion for musical festivals, concerts given in his palace music room, in front of his friends, by musicians, singers and dancers. This passion ruined him, while at the same time his neighbour, a new rich, prospered and sought to compete with him musically ...

The Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), who was born in Calcutta, remains one of the greatest poets in cinema history. Of the 37 films of his imposing career, ARSMONDO offers 5 of his most accomplished works, which combine an ability to create engaging and complex characters struggling with an arduous reality and a look at the evolution of Bengali society in particular. Satyajit Ray received an Oscar for his work in 1992.