Synopsis

Satyajit Ray, India's premiere film director, takes a rare foray into social satire with 1963's The Big City. Anil Chaterjee stars as the typically subjugated wife of an Indian bank official. When the banker loses his job, he orders Anil to find work to make ends meet. The wife subsequently runs the household finances so brilliantly that soon she is in the driver's seat, in direct opposition to long-established Indian matrimonial custom. Seen by some critics as a subtle plea for improving the status of Indian womanhood, The Big City was based on a novel by Narbenda Nath Mitra.

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Yasmine Bleeth's Big City Adventure
HOLLYWOOD, May 26, 2000 -- The heat’s got nothing on Yasmine Bleeth. Despite reports to the contrary, the erstwhile former "Baywatch" actress was merely detained -- not arrested -- on Monday night in New York City after one of her galpals (who was arrested) decided to toss an empty beer bottle in the direction of a passing cop car.

Word of Bleeth's "arrest" first surfaced in the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column. The tab subsequently apologized for the report.

Besides the newspapers, Bleeth, 31, can also be seen on the upcoming Aaron Spelling primetime soap "Titans," to debut on NBC this fall.

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