Seton, Marie. Portrait of a Director: Satyajit Ray. Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2003, p. 233. ISBN 9780143029724. «The two sisters, Anime and Monisha, and Gulabi, are a distinct contrast from the more traditional Indian women in Ray's earlier films. But in Mahanagar, Arati is not only the central character but a woman, as Chidananda Das Gupta observed, ...»
Robinson, Andrew. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker. Nova York: I.B. Tauris, 2004, p. 149. ISBN 9781860649653. «"She was like someone I had seen,' says Madhabi Mukherjee of her wonderfully expressive performance as Arati in Mahanagar, which Ray shot in the first half of 1963. This is his first examination of more or less contemporary Calcutta, ..."»
