The Big City full movie. Drama film in Disney Hotstar+

The Big City

1963

136 min

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1996.

Drama

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