Chhabi Biswas in Jalsaghar (1958) | Satyajit Ray Productions
Astonishingly, folded in between the films that comprise the celebrated Apu Trilogy
, are two movies inspired by Bengali literature and Satyajit Ray’s association with two outstanding Bengali character actors: Tulsi Chakraborty in
Parash Pathar and Chhabi Biswas in
Jalsaghar. The first is perhaps minor (in spite of Chakraborty’s phenomenal performance) and is now mostly forgotten. However the latter is among the three or four greatest films in Ray’s oeuvre,
and Chhabi Biswas’s performance is unsurpassed in his own illustrious career.
Elegiac in tone,
Jalsaghar (The Music Room) is, to quote John Russell Taylor, “an atmospheric piece”. It occasionally reminds one of Orson Welles’s
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