The Daily Star ranked the film 3rd on its list of the greatest short story adaptations. Preservation The Academy Film Archive preserved Jalsaghar in 1996. Home video In 1993, Merchant Ivory Productions restored the film and Sony Pictures Classics released it theatrically in New York with five other Ray films. It was released on VHS in 1995. In July 2011, an HD digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection. Sound Track A CD of the sound track was released at the end of the 1980's by Ocora-RadioFrance / Harmonia Mundi. The booklet accompanying the CD contains excerpts of an interview of Satyajit Ray by Andrew Robinson. The interview took place in Calcutta in 1986. https://archive.org/details/jalsaghar-le-salon-de-musique-sound-track-booklet References References External links The Criterion Collection The Music Room: Distant Music an essay by Philip Kemp at the Criterion Collection 1958 films Films directed by Satyajit Ray Bengali-language Indian films Films based on short fiction Indian feudalism Films set in West Bengal Films shot in West Bengal Films with screenplays by Satyajit Ray Films scored by Vilayat Khan Second Best Feature Film National Film Award winners 1950s Bengali-language films