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In Bengali with English subtitles
New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Satyajit Ray (1984), a documentary by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray's career
New interview with filmmaker Mira Nair
New interview in which Ray biographer Andrew Robinson on the 'Making of'
A 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, Michel Ciment & Claude Sautet
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp & 1963 essay by Ray
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
This film is a moody and evocative portrait of a physically and emotionally isolated man who is mourning the death of his only son, his wife, and his formerly lavish way of life. The distinguished Bengali actor Chhabi Biswas gives an outstanding performance as Huzar Biswambhar Roy, a once-happy and prosperous landowner who used to spend his evenings in the music room (or jalsaghar) of his magnificent palace. There he would sit on priceless carpets under magnificent chandeliers and admire himself in a large ornate mirror as he watched the best Bengali dancers and musicians perform.
Huzur is reminded of this opulent past by a tendril of music emanating from the house of his annoying nouveau riche neighbor, Mahim Ganguly (Gangapanda Basu) who likes to throw his good fortune in Huzar's face. Ganguly hosts the kind of lavish parties Huzar used to host, while Huzar's music room sits as empty and cold as his wounded heart.
Finally, unable to stop Ganguly's taunting, Huzar uses his last 500 rupees to reopen the jalsaghar for one more glorious performance. The loyal manager of his estate, Taraprasanna (Tulsi Lahiri) tries to stop him, but it's hopeless.
This film, made in 1958, is an excellent example of Satyajit Ray's ability to evoke mood. The desolation of the crumbling palace is the perfect visual metaphor for Huzar's inner state. For fans of Ray's work, this is a must-see example. --Luanne Brown
Product Description
With The Music Room (Jalsaghar), Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali) brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor, Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to his way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years--now a shadow of its former vivid self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India’s most popular musicians of the day, The Music Room is a defining work by the great Bengali filmmaker.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Jalsaghar(The Music Room),made in 1958 is a masterpiece of World Cinema. It is must-see for all Ray fans in particualar and all the classic cinelovers in general.
The film is about a zamindar(landowning nobleman),played brilliantly by the great Chobi Biswas,whose tremendous passsion for staging very lavish musical arrangements ushers in his decadence.
The movie shows in flashback his best days with a happy family and most dignified presence in the sumptuous music and dance arrangements.
On the course of time,the nobleman loses money;his wife and son die in a shipwreck.
In a last and vein effort to bring back those yesterdays of glory and now-lost dignity the nobleman invests with all the money he had to stage another jalsa( musical arrangement ).
And this arrangement turned out to be his last.
The movie has got many memorable scenes notably one in the "jalsaghar" where he makes his presence felt by saying that he is the one who deserves (he being the host and organizer)to be the first giver of the token-money(as remuneration) to the artist ;and yet another one was when he gets the news of his kins' death and takes in hands restlessly his son's deadbody.
Who can forget the last scene where he becomes restless and takes out his aging stallion out of the stable and rides on it until he falls down.The scene aptly concludes the downfall of the zamindar .
Not many people know that Ray found the location of the this zamindar's palace in an awkward place in Nimtita in Bengal-Bangladesh border.
The palace in which the film was shot was actually that of the Chowdhurys and coincidentally enough the writer of "Jalsaghar",Tarashankar Banerjee, had one music loving Upendra Narayan Chowdhury (of this Chowdhury family of Nimtita) in his mind which served as the model of the Zamindaar of his story.
This is the film which can be seen time and again without getting tired.This is real genuine masterpiece.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Although I have not viewed the DVD yet, I will update as to any special features, but I am sharing you my review from VHS.
If you have not been introduced to the cinematic world of Satyajit Ray, this 1958 may not be your best film to start out. Instead, try his last movie 1991, Agantuk, (The Stranger) or begin with the world classic mid 50's Apu Trilogy. The Music Room features lengthy Indian music and singing that may be difficult to endure, but it is essential to listen, because it is the essence of the film, the love of music.
Jalsaghar (The Music Room) takes place in the 30's in a huge deteriorating palace as the soil slowly erodes too. The theme is a contrast between decadence and wealth. All he has now is two loyal servants, a few gold coins, a horse, and an elephant. As the movie opens, we are in the present time, when Biswambhar Roy, a feudal landlord is depressed, he has lost his wife and son and his love for the grand music room, where he entertained traditional concerts, drinking, and dancing.
Biswambhar Roy is annoyed by the lights going off from his neighbor's new generator. The neighbor is wealthy and he is modernizing, while Roy is not. Soon, we are taken into flashback where evidence shows he was already beginning to lose wealth, but he said he would spend his last on his love of music.
His wife and son have gone to visit family, and in preparation of another concert in the music room, upon return, he learns they are dead from a whirlpool accident. Now begins the death of the cherished music room.
Satyajit Ray is one of the world's greatest directors, he writes, produces, and directs. He is also a short story writer, and was a graphic artist. He is multi-talented and uses motifs, symbolism, themes, imagery, wide landscape shots. The mirrors, chandeliers, lights, and candles represent wealth and life. You will see an enormous views, especially one that depicts the size of the decaying palace. See how Ray sets the mood and slowly pans the dying, cold, deteriorating music room that was once had musical life. Ray's films offer great insight into human relationships, cultural life, hardships and triumph.
If you have seen Ray's films, you may be aware of the unique faces of his characters. He has said, he chooses people with interesting faces, and it is true with one of his bearded singers. He also doesn't focus on heavy dialogue as he once said that peak moments of a film should be wordless.
Enjoy this wonderful classic and don't see it while sleepy!! Satyajit Ray's movies are exceptional! As another great director, Kurosawa, said, " Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon."
--- Rizzo
If you have not been introduced to the cinematic world of Satyajit Ray, this 1958 may not be your best film to start out. Instead, try his last movie 1991, Agantuk, (The Stranger) or begin with the world classic mid 50's Apu Trilogy. The Music Room features lengthy Indian music and singing that may be difficult to endure, but it is essential to listen, because it is the essence of the film, the love of music.
Jalsaghar (The Music Room) takes place in the 30's in a huge deteriorating palace as the soil slowly erodes too. The theme is a contrast between decadence and wealth. All he has now is two loyal servants, a few gold coins, a horse, and an elephant. As the movie opens, we are in the present time, when Biswambhar Roy, a feudal landlord is depressed, he has lost his wife and son and his love for the grand music room, where he entertained traditional concerts, drinking, and dancing.
Biswambhar Roy is annoyed by the lights going off from his neighbor's new generator. The neighbor is wealthy and he is modernizing, while Roy is not. Soon, we are taken into flashback where evidence shows he was already beginning to lose wealth, but he said he would spend his last on his love of music.
His wife and son have gone to visit family, and in preparation of another concert in the music room, upon return, he learns they are dead from a whirlpool accident. Now begins the death of the cherished music room.
Satyajit Ray is one of the world's greatest directors, he writes, produces, and directs. He is also a short story writer, and was a graphic artist. He is multi-talented and uses motifs, symbolism, themes, imagery, wide landscape shots. The mirrors, chandeliers, lights, and candles represent wealth and life. You will see an enormous views, especially one that depicts the size of the decaying palace. See how Ray sets the mood and slowly pans the dying, cold, deteriorating music room that was once had musical life. Ray's films offer great insight into human relationships, cultural life, hardships and triumph.
If you have seen Ray's films, you may be aware of the unique faces of his characters. He has said, he chooses people with interesting faces, and it is true with one of his bearded singers. He also doesn't focus on heavy dialogue as he once said that peak moments of a film should be wordless.
Enjoy this wonderful classic and don't see it while sleepy!! Satyajit Ray's movies are exceptional! As another great director, Kurosawa, said, " Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon."
--- Rizzo
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blu-ray: Poetic, visually mesmerizing and a 5-star Criterion Collection release!
August 1, 2011
Format:Blu-ray
Poetic, visually mesmerizing and I would expect nothing less from one of the greatest auteurs of all time.
Satyajit Ray. The Indian Bengali filmmaker was known for his non-traditional Indian films. Having directed 37 films in his lifetime, many which won multiple awards internationally and his contribution to cinema has earned him an Academy Honorary Award in 1991, his films are beloved by many and many have hoped to see his films receive the Blu-ray treatment in the U.S.
And who best than the Criterion Collection who will be releasing Ray's fourth feature film titled "Jalsaghar" (The Music Room) on Blu-ray and DVD.
"The Music room" is a film adaptation of Tarashankar Banerjee's short story but instead of creating an exact adaptation, Satyajit Ray would give his own spin to the film, making several changes but also creating a non-traditional film that would have music like most Indian films, but rather the music being an intermission, the music would be integrated as part of the original screenplay and featuring popular Indian music talent of the time: Begum Akhtar, Roshan Kumari, Ustad Waheed Khan and Bismillah Khan.
VIDEO:
"The Music Room" is presented in 1080p High Definition black and white. For a film that could have been lost (the original negative was destroyed in a fire) forever, fortunately, through the collaboration of various companies, "The Music Room" was among Satyajit Ray's films that were restored and given an HD transfer on Blu-ray courtesy of the Criterion Collection.
There is no better surviving element of the negative than what we see with this film on Blu-ray and I have to say that the film looks great on Blu-ray. With Satyajit Ray's films, there is a focus on aesthetics, the environment around them. And its no surprise as Ray was a big fan of filmmaker Jean Renoir and Vittorio De Sica's work. His attention to detail for his film definitely lends to a more artistic and visually pleasing look as there is a style to his film that one can truly appreciate. Frm the efficacy of Ray capturing the details of webs on a chandelier, a bug on a painting, to see his estate change through time and more. Possibly one of my favorite shot in this film was how we see a bit of the old, with the elephant grazing in the back, which is then disturbed by Ganguly's motor car that throws dirt all around. A visual of traditional India and modern India at the time.
The contrast was also well-done and while, I'm not going to say that the "The Music Room" is absolutely pristine, I will say that for a film that is over 50-years-old and the challenges it has faced in order to be restored, I have no doubt in my mind that the Criterion Collection Blu-ray release is the best version...the definitive version of "The Music Room" thus far! Blacks are nice and deep, really good contrast for the white and grays.
Because a lot of Ray's films were shot on triacetate, the film was in danger of deteriorating in warm temperatures. After Satyajit Ray received his Academy Honorary Award in 1992, the Academy was dismayed that there were few prints and masters of Ray's films in the US and many were now incomplete or in bad condition. So, the Academy decided to create a catalog of the surviving elements of Ray's films in the US and to assess what was in good condition or what films would be lost.
The Academy found that the majority of Ray's films were in jeopardy and so, together with the Satyajit Ray Society, the National Archive of India and the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the collaboration would ensure that every element that existed in the world could be accessed to make the best restoration possible. "The Music room" was one of the very first films preserved by the project.
According to the Criterion Collection, the laboratory in London suffered a fire and several of Ray's elements and the original camera negative of "The Music Room" were destroyed. But a second generation fine-grain master positive taken from the original camera negative existed in India. The film would eventually receive restoration and was supervised by Academy director Michael Friend and completed in 1995.
The Criterion Collection used a new high-definition digital transfer which was created on a Spirit 4K Datacine from an original 35mm fine-grain master positive. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter and flicker were manually removed using MTI's DRS system and Pixel Farm's PFClean ssytem while Digital Vision's system was used for small dirt, grain, noise, reduction and scratches.
AUDIO & SUBTITLES:
As for the audio, the audio is presented in Bengali and in monaural. The audio dialogue is clear as is the classical music of the film.
According to the Criterion Collection, "The Music Room" was remastered at 24-bit from the original 35 mm soundtrack print. Clicks, thumps, hiss and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube's integrated workstation.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
"The Music Room - The Criterion Collection #573' on Blu-ray comes with the following special features:
For the Love of Music - (17:36) Satyajit Ray biographer Andrew Robinson talks about Ray's love for music and Satyajit Ray's idea and working on the film adaptation of "The Music Room" and the differences between Ray's version from the book.
Mira Nair - (15:44) Filmmaker Mira Nair talks about Satyajit Ray's work, "The Music Room" and what she enjoyed about the film.
French Roundtable - (10:36) An excerpt from a 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, film critic Michel Ciment, and director Claude Sautet
Satyajit Ray - (2:11:05) A feature documentary from 1984 by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray's career through interviews with the filmmaker, family photographs, and extensive clips from his films
EXTRAS:
"The Music Room - The Criterion Collection #573' comes with a 38-page booklet which includes the following essays "Distant Music" by Philip Kemp, "Winding Route to a Music Room" by Satyajit Ray, "On the Music of the Music Room: An Interview with Satyajit Ray by Andrew Robinson and information on the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project and restoration of "The Music Room".
JUDGMENT CALL:
Satyajit Ray may be known for the "Apu Trilogy", "The Chess Players", "The Visitor" to name a few but similar to many auteurs, to study and watch a filmmaker's oeuvre, you notice a change in style overtime.
With Ray, what was intriguing about this filmmaker is his goal to outdo himself from the previous films, to not have his films fit in a traditional sense of filmmaking but with hopes that his countrymen would enjoy the film, as well as people abroad. But for Ray, films that he expected to do well in his country would be popular internationally, while films he thought would do well internationally would be popular more in his country.
Suffice to say, his films often achieved the opposite of what he was expecting but nevertheless, nearly two decades after his passing, many are discovering Satyajit Ray's films and many are hoping companies would bring them to the US.
The Criterion Collection has stepped in by releasing "The Music Room" on Blu-ray and DVD but to also show tribute to the filmmaker with the inclusion of the 1984 feature documentary "Satyajit Ray" which focuses on the filmmaker's career.
"The Music Room" to me, if I had to describe the film, it was more poetic in the sense that elements of what was shot, had meaning. Satyajit Ray has talked about how Jean Renoir influenced him and Renoir was important to the precursor of Nouvelle Vague but his efficacy in using the elements in a room or outdoors to enhance the visual structure of the film. There is meaning behind the environment of "The Music Room" as it shows us the past and present of a zamnidar who has had a strong sense of pride but also a man who is incapable of leaving that pride, despite losing nearly everything in his life.
I have heard that "The Music Room" is different from the original short story that the film was adapted from but Satyajit Ray was able to accomplish a lot with this loose adaptation. For one, utilizing the character and showing us how he reacts to loss, sadness and rivalry. But also, possibly an audacious move on the filmmaker's part to include classical Indian music but incorporate it as part of the storyline.
In India, the film did well for seven weeks but because it was non-traditional and much different than what Indians were used to in cinema, "The Music Room" was no popular in Ray's country but found a big following internationally. Needless to say, the film was ahead of its time.
And as the storyline captures your attention as you see the character of Biswambhlar Roy get lost in his own pride, we see how music plays an important part in the film. Classical Indian music playing while we watch the characters are they react to the performances. And the performance is actually breathtaking, especially the final dance as we see the woman dancing and seeing how the men react to the dancing, it was a wonderful scene. But as mentioned, it was the scenes that featured traditional India and modern India that I found quite interesting.
In one shot, we see Roy's wife and son riding by horse and a carriage held by servants, in a later shot, we see Roy's elephant grazing but then seeing that natural setting disrupted by Ganguli's car as it drives through the pathway kicking up dirt all around.
But then there are shots where we know that darker things will be coming. Read more ›
Satyajit Ray. The Indian Bengali filmmaker was known for his non-traditional Indian films. Having directed 37 films in his lifetime, many which won multiple awards internationally and his contribution to cinema has earned him an Academy Honorary Award in 1991, his films are beloved by many and many have hoped to see his films receive the Blu-ray treatment in the U.S.
And who best than the Criterion Collection who will be releasing Ray's fourth feature film titled "Jalsaghar" (The Music Room) on Blu-ray and DVD.
"The Music room" is a film adaptation of Tarashankar Banerjee's short story but instead of creating an exact adaptation, Satyajit Ray would give his own spin to the film, making several changes but also creating a non-traditional film that would have music like most Indian films, but rather the music being an intermission, the music would be integrated as part of the original screenplay and featuring popular Indian music talent of the time: Begum Akhtar, Roshan Kumari, Ustad Waheed Khan and Bismillah Khan.
VIDEO:
"The Music Room" is presented in 1080p High Definition black and white. For a film that could have been lost (the original negative was destroyed in a fire) forever, fortunately, through the collaboration of various companies, "The Music Room" was among Satyajit Ray's films that were restored and given an HD transfer on Blu-ray courtesy of the Criterion Collection.
There is no better surviving element of the negative than what we see with this film on Blu-ray and I have to say that the film looks great on Blu-ray. With Satyajit Ray's films, there is a focus on aesthetics, the environment around them. And its no surprise as Ray was a big fan of filmmaker Jean Renoir and Vittorio De Sica's work. His attention to detail for his film definitely lends to a more artistic and visually pleasing look as there is a style to his film that one can truly appreciate. Frm the efficacy of Ray capturing the details of webs on a chandelier, a bug on a painting, to see his estate change through time and more. Possibly one of my favorite shot in this film was how we see a bit of the old, with the elephant grazing in the back, which is then disturbed by Ganguly's motor car that throws dirt all around. A visual of traditional India and modern India at the time.
The contrast was also well-done and while, I'm not going to say that the "The Music Room" is absolutely pristine, I will say that for a film that is over 50-years-old and the challenges it has faced in order to be restored, I have no doubt in my mind that the Criterion Collection Blu-ray release is the best version...the definitive version of "The Music Room" thus far! Blacks are nice and deep, really good contrast for the white and grays.
Because a lot of Ray's films were shot on triacetate, the film was in danger of deteriorating in warm temperatures. After Satyajit Ray received his Academy Honorary Award in 1992, the Academy was dismayed that there were few prints and masters of Ray's films in the US and many were now incomplete or in bad condition. So, the Academy decided to create a catalog of the surviving elements of Ray's films in the US and to assess what was in good condition or what films would be lost.
The Academy found that the majority of Ray's films were in jeopardy and so, together with the Satyajit Ray Society, the National Archive of India and the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the collaboration would ensure that every element that existed in the world could be accessed to make the best restoration possible. "The Music room" was one of the very first films preserved by the project.
According to the Criterion Collection, the laboratory in London suffered a fire and several of Ray's elements and the original camera negative of "The Music Room" were destroyed. But a second generation fine-grain master positive taken from the original camera negative existed in India. The film would eventually receive restoration and was supervised by Academy director Michael Friend and completed in 1995.
The Criterion Collection used a new high-definition digital transfer which was created on a Spirit 4K Datacine from an original 35mm fine-grain master positive. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter and flicker were manually removed using MTI's DRS system and Pixel Farm's PFClean ssytem while Digital Vision's system was used for small dirt, grain, noise, reduction and scratches.
AUDIO & SUBTITLES:
As for the audio, the audio is presented in Bengali and in monaural. The audio dialogue is clear as is the classical music of the film.
According to the Criterion Collection, "The Music Room" was remastered at 24-bit from the original 35 mm soundtrack print. Clicks, thumps, hiss and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube's integrated workstation.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
"The Music Room - The Criterion Collection #573' on Blu-ray comes with the following special features:
For the Love of Music - (17:36) Satyajit Ray biographer Andrew Robinson talks about Ray's love for music and Satyajit Ray's idea and working on the film adaptation of "The Music Room" and the differences between Ray's version from the book.
Mira Nair - (15:44) Filmmaker Mira Nair talks about Satyajit Ray's work, "The Music Room" and what she enjoyed about the film.
French Roundtable - (10:36) An excerpt from a 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, film critic Michel Ciment, and director Claude Sautet
Satyajit Ray - (2:11:05) A feature documentary from 1984 by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray's career through interviews with the filmmaker, family photographs, and extensive clips from his films
EXTRAS:
"The Music Room - The Criterion Collection #573' comes with a 38-page booklet which includes the following essays "Distant Music" by Philip Kemp, "Winding Route to a Music Room" by Satyajit Ray, "On the Music of the Music Room: An Interview with Satyajit Ray by Andrew Robinson and information on the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project and restoration of "The Music Room".
JUDGMENT CALL:
Satyajit Ray may be known for the "Apu Trilogy", "The Chess Players", "The Visitor" to name a few but similar to many auteurs, to study and watch a filmmaker's oeuvre, you notice a change in style overtime.
With Ray, what was intriguing about this filmmaker is his goal to outdo himself from the previous films, to not have his films fit in a traditional sense of filmmaking but with hopes that his countrymen would enjoy the film, as well as people abroad. But for Ray, films that he expected to do well in his country would be popular internationally, while films he thought would do well internationally would be popular more in his country.
Suffice to say, his films often achieved the opposite of what he was expecting but nevertheless, nearly two decades after his passing, many are discovering Satyajit Ray's films and many are hoping companies would bring them to the US.
The Criterion Collection has stepped in by releasing "The Music Room" on Blu-ray and DVD but to also show tribute to the filmmaker with the inclusion of the 1984 feature documentary "Satyajit Ray" which focuses on the filmmaker's career.
"The Music Room" to me, if I had to describe the film, it was more poetic in the sense that elements of what was shot, had meaning. Satyajit Ray has talked about how Jean Renoir influenced him and Renoir was important to the precursor of Nouvelle Vague but his efficacy in using the elements in a room or outdoors to enhance the visual structure of the film. There is meaning behind the environment of "The Music Room" as it shows us the past and present of a zamnidar who has had a strong sense of pride but also a man who is incapable of leaving that pride, despite losing nearly everything in his life.
I have heard that "The Music Room" is different from the original short story that the film was adapted from but Satyajit Ray was able to accomplish a lot with this loose adaptation. For one, utilizing the character and showing us how he reacts to loss, sadness and rivalry. But also, possibly an audacious move on the filmmaker's part to include classical Indian music but incorporate it as part of the storyline.
In India, the film did well for seven weeks but because it was non-traditional and much different than what Indians were used to in cinema, "The Music Room" was no popular in Ray's country but found a big following internationally. Needless to say, the film was ahead of its time.
And as the storyline captures your attention as you see the character of Biswambhlar Roy get lost in his own pride, we see how music plays an important part in the film. Classical Indian music playing while we watch the characters are they react to the performances. And the performance is actually breathtaking, especially the final dance as we see the woman dancing and seeing how the men react to the dancing, it was a wonderful scene. But as mentioned, it was the scenes that featured traditional India and modern India that I found quite interesting.
In one shot, we see Roy's wife and son riding by horse and a carriage held by servants, in a later shot, we see Roy's elephant grazing but then seeing that natural setting disrupted by Ganguli's car as it drives through the pathway kicking up dirt all around.
But then there are shots where we know that darker things will be coming. Read more ›
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I can't play it on 2 of my devices, why sell it if you can't enjoy it. no more words required.
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Brutally, utterly devastating.... My kind of movie....
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soporific satyajit...
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