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Jalsaghar (1958), known in the U.S. and Europe as The Music Room, is the 4th feature film directed by Satyajit Ray based on a novel of the same name by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. Based on a short story by Bengali writer Tarasankar Banerjee, the film is a detailed dramatic study of the last days of a zamindar - a semi-feudal landlord in Bengal. Told with a detail and sense of empathy that typified Ray's films, Jalsaghar drew high praise internationally (Bosley Crowther in The New York Times, Derek Malcom in The Guardian), and is discussed in the second volume of Roger Ebert's Great Movies as a landmark film in global cinema.

Sources:

Roger Ebert: The Great Movies II, 2005, Broadway Books.

Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, 2nd Ed., 2004, I.B. Tauris Books.

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