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...Woman Rebels (Katherine Hepburn, free) Friday at 8 and 10; Charulata (Satyajit Ray) Saturday...
Satyajit Ray's Charulata...
...Charulata" (A Woman Named Charu), an international award-winning film by Indian director Satyajit Ray, will be shown at 4 p.m. Saturday, at MIT Auditorium, Room 10-250. Proceeds from the benefit screening will aid Bengali refugees in India. For reservations, call Dr. S. Sarkar, 742-6583, ext. 303 or 306. Donation...
...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...