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The Music Room
Directed by
Satyajit Ray
Not Rated
1958
1h 40m
Drama
,
Music
7.9
100%
91%
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Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
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Cast of The Music Room
Chhabi Biswas
Biswambhar Roy
Gangapada Basu
Mahim Ganguli
Kali Sarkar
Anantha
Tulsi Lahiri
Prashanna
Padmadevi
Mahamaya Roy
Pinaki Sengupta
Khoka Roy
Begum Akhtar
Durga Bai
Waheed Khan
Ustad Ujir Khan
Roshan Kumari
Krishna Bai
Sardar Akhtar
Singer
Bismillah Khan
Musician
Dakshinamohan Thakur
Musician
Ashish Kumar
Musician
Robin Mazumdar
Musician
Imrat Khan
Sitar Player
Salamat Ali Khan
Khyal singer
Tarapada Nandy
The Music Room Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Newly available on video at last in a high-quality print, it is the story of a man who has been compared to King Lear because of his pride, stubbornness, and the way he loses everything that matters.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...a mid-century ode to a man whose time has passed.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
This production is an extraordinary mixture of distinctive Bengali culture and universal themes of emotional loss.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A wonderful tale of pride and the fools it makes of men.
Paste Magazine
Sean Gandert
It's a full-on Shakespearean tragedy that manages to be both critical of and sympathetic to its main character.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
For all its exotic stimulations, it is an exceedingly simple, moving film, expressing a human dilemma that should be comprehensible to all.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A remarkable film.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Ray approaches the subject of The Music Room with all its cultural specificity intact, albeit in such a way that feels familiar and relatable to viewers across the globe who are otherwise unfamiliar with the specifics of Bengali culture.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Ray's social insight is not dimmed by treating his subject in this distant, allegorical manner; if anything it's intensified by the closer focus he's able to train on his characters.
World Socialist Web Site
Joanne Laurier
Jalsaghar is an elegant film. Understated grey tones enhance its chronicling of the death agony of a social era.
Los Angeles Free Press
Gene Youngblood
It is the most delicately balanced, the most poetic, and with the possible exception of The World of Apu it is Ray's most romantic movie.
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Sean Axmaker
Graceful, melancholy, directed with a reserved elegance, The Music Room observes the old-world feudal life of the 1920s fading into irrelevance with both sympathy and disparagement.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
[Satyajit Ray's] most accomplished film up that time and many critics still hold it as the director's masterpiece.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
both a nuanced psychological portrait of an aristocrat in decline and a showcase for India's best musical talent
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Moving look at the power of music, shot with a rich visual style.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
Like a lotus flower, Satyajit Ray's Jalsagbar (The Music Room) gently reveals its enigmatic central character
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
A rapturous treasure trove of Indian classical music and dance-and a tale of the reckless passion that they can inspire.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
A surprisingly sympathetic elegy for the feudal class, or at least one of its sad representatives...the notion of lost legacy informs the film's distraught last word: 'blood.' [Blu-ray]
Film and Felt
Gabe Leibowitz
One of my favorite films, The Music Room bathes its viewers in Indian culture while remaining universally accessible with its masterful photography and stunning music.
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