Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
An ambitious young sales manager engineers a company strike to cover up a technical flaw in their lamp equipment and ironically rises to a directorship, but loses the respect of his wife’s sister to whom he is attracted.
An ambitious young sales manager engineers a company strike to cover up a technical flaw in their lamp equipment and ironically rises to a directorship, but loses the respect of his wife’s sister to whom he is attracted.
In the second entry in his highly contemporary Calcutta Trilogy—devoted to capturing changes in the increasingly modern megacity—the great Satyajit Ray climbs the corporate ladder to explore a number of pertinent, national themes from his skeptical perspective. A damning, powerful social drama.