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Inside Satyajit Ray's little known corner of life as an aficionado of board games, from Scrabble to chess
Firstpost“Father was deeply interested in word games, quizzes, and anagrams. Of course, sporadically, his deep interest in pastimes like word games and alliteration had also entered his films," says Sandip Ray, filmmaker and Satyajit’s son. “It happens that Scrabble, which is an age-old invention, formed part of father’s life, too, in our earlier home on Lake Temple Road, and migrated to our present residence on Bishop Lefroy Road.” Sandip agrees that the roots of his great father’s fascination with word games lay in his supreme mastery over the English vocabulary. “But father acquired several chess books when he decided to direct Shatranj Ke Khilari to research into moves so that he got them accurately when the two unflagging chess aficionados in the film, Mirza Sajjad Ali and Mir Roshan Ali, enacted unforgettably by the late actors Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey respectively, went about pursuing their chess bouts,” drives home Sandip. Sandesh’s quizzical section also carried silhouettes of well-known characters from my grandfather Sukumar Ray’s unmatched book of Nonsense rhymes, Abol Tabol, or famous landmarks like the Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar or the Machu Picchu.
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