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20# We can see Bhupati’s newspaper better for just a few moments. But in order to give authentic
form it, Ray searched through the old files of the newspaper edited by Surendranath Banerjee. The
letter types, news headlines and even advertising fees of Bhupati’s newspaper were exactly the same
what Surendranath’s paper had.

The style of handwriting in the nineteenth century was also different. Seeing the old manuscripts,
Soumitra Chatterjee had to practice that style with such care that his own normal handwriting was lost
forever.

21# The dialouge of CHARULATA is not only poetic and realistic but also intelligent and full of fun. The
alliterations with the letters ‘B’ and ‘P’ in the dialouge of the two scenes is a living example of that wit.

22# Ray also used the sound very efficiently. In a scene towards the end, Charu is holding Amal’s letter,
her heart is breakng. In that scene , we hear the sound of a glass vessel or something else falling apart
in the storm.

Again in the second half of the exposition episode, when Bhupati hands over the bunch of keys of his
safe to Umapada and says Umapada will look after the financial side, just before that we hear in the
background the sound of the bearers carrying the palanquin. It is as if Bhupati has been warned. Very
indistinct but wonderful use of sounds.

23# A number of symbols , such as the musical motifs of western classical music, repeatedly turn
around the movie. In this case , first we will remember the handkerchief with the initials B of Bhupati’s
name. While showing the movie title, Charulata is embroidering a handkerchief on the right side of the
fixed frame, the letter B in the middle of the embroidered flower on the handkerchief and the title of
the movie on the left side of the frame.

We see this handkerchief again in the last scene of the first half of the exposition episode when Charu
gives Bhupati it as a gift.

For the third time we see the handkerchief almost at the end of the movie when Bhupati losing his
faith sheds tears over this handkerchief in the moving cart.

At the end of the movie when anguished Bhupati returns home, standing outside the door, a part of
the handkerchief peeks out of the chest pocket of his coat.

24# Charu made this handkerchief for Bhupati and gave him it as a gift. But the pair of slippers she
made for Bhupati, she gifted to Amal without giving it to Bhupati.

Bhupati kept the handkerchief with him carefully like the last shelter. But Amal didn’t take the slippers
with him and left.

This pair of slippers revolves around the movie like the musical motif.