Jalsaghar

Jalsaghar
The Music Room
Directed bySatyajit Ray
Screenplay bySatyajit Ray
Based onShort story Jalsaghar
by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Produced bySatyajit Ray
StarringChhabi Biswas
Padma Devi
Pinaki Sen Gupta
Gangapada Bose
Tulsi Lahari
Kali Sarkar
Ustad Waheed Khan
Roshan Kumari
Begum Akhtar
CinematographySubrata Mitra
Edited byDulal Dutta
Music byVilayat Khan
Production
company
Distributed byContemporary Films (UK)
Edward Harrison (US)
Release dates
  • 10 October 1958 (1958-10-10) (India)
  • April 1962 (1962-04) (UK)
  • 15 October 1963 (1963-10-15) (US)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Jalsaghar[1] (Bengali: জলসাঘর Jalsāghar, lit. 'The Music Room') is a 1958 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on a popular short story by Bengali writer Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, and starring Chhabi Biswas. The fourth of Ray's feature films, it was filmed at Nimtita Raajbari at Nimtita, in Murshidabad district. Despite initial poor critical reception in India, Jalsaghar went on to win the Presidential Award for best film in New Delhi,[2] and played a significant role in establishing Ray's international reputation as a director. It has since gained near-universal critical acclaim,[3] and has come to be regarded by the cinema community as one of the greatest films of all time.[4][5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ Singh, S. K. "Jalsaghar (The Music Room): A film by Satyajit Ray :: SatyajitRay.org". www.satyajitray.org. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 8 November 2005.
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