The Music Room (Jalsaghar)
Satyajit Ray / IN, 1958 / 99 min.
Satyajit Ray brilliantly portrays the downfall of a decadent, down-at-heel landowner who lives in the past and ultimately meets his demise due to his own inflexibility. This feverish, luxurious drama confirms Ray as contemporary India's most important filmmaker.
An aristocrat fallen on hard times and mere shadow of his former self clings desperately to a luxurious, declining lifestyle he hasn’t really been able to afford for quite some time. He proudly continues to organise musical soirees in the music room at his opulent home and for those scenes, director Satyajit Ray recruited a number of India's most popular musicians of that era including Begum Akhtar, Roshan Kumari and Bismillah Khan. According to Ray, the film attempts to demonstrate ‘the unavoidability of the old order being replaced by a - new, yet not necessarily better - system.
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Director
Satyajit Ray
Production year
1958
Country
IN
Original title
Jalsaghar
Length
99 min.
Language
Bengali, Bangla
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Satyajit Ray
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