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Release, runtime and language
1963 · 136 mins · Bengali, Bangla
Directed by
Satyajit Ray
Starring
Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Jaya Bachchan, Madhabi Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee, Tapan Chatterjee, Shyamal Ghoshal

After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

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