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After inviting Shira D. Bhupati ’04 over to watch the movie Unfaithful with him, Hank J. Dillinger ’04 proceeded to stop at each sex scene and replay it over and over and over to give Bhupati a little hint of what they could maybe do with each other on the futon when the movie ended. Though life may in fact imitate art, it appears not to do so as much like a trained monkey as Dillinger had hoped. After the third run-through of the fourth sex scene, she made...
Charulata and Bhupati are a childless couple, entering their thirties in Calcutta of the 1880's. Offspring carry special importance in the Indian tradition, and Bhupati attempts to drown his frustration in overdevotion to a liberal newspaper he has founded. Charulata would like to write poetry, but is prevented by the constrictions placed on women in Indian society...
Their marriage trembles when Charulata falls in love with Bhupati's poet brother, as a refuge from her barrenness. At the end, however, the husband and wife manage to find love within the conventions of marriage, by accepting not their fate but each other. In Charulata Ray is reiterating a long-standing theme--that no circumstances are too dire to preclude happiness. The director's constant optimism becomes especially impressive in the context of modern India...
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