Satyajit Ray's Work Inspires Projects From Big Bazaar, Roadshow At Cannes
2 years, 10 months ago

Satyajit Ray's Work Inspires Projects From Big Bazaar, Roadshow At Cannes

ABP News  

New Delhi: A restored version of Indian maestro Satyajit Ray's 1970 film 'Pratidwandi' is playing at Cannes Classics this year and films inspired by his works are being planned. Kolkata-based Indian producer-director Aritra Sen's Roadshow Films and Los Angeles-based British writer-director Alex Harvey's Big Bazaar Films are producing two films this year, which take their inspiration from Ray's life and work, reports 'Variety'. "Kolkata endlessly fed Ray's imagination," says Sen. "In return Ray gave the city its sense of self." Harvey's last film was mixed martial arts documentary 'Enter the Jungle' ALSO READ: ‘It Is The Kind Of Cinema That…’: What Akira Kurosawa Said After Watching Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali

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‘Satyajit Ray is one of the few filmmakers I looked up to’: German director Wim Wenders on his India tour
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Satyajit Ray is one of the few filmmakers I looked up to’: German director Wim Wenders on his India tour

The Hindu  

German filmmaker Wim Wenders, known for classics such as Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, and Perfect Days, shared his deep admiration for India and filmmaker Satyajit Ray at a masterclass here, where he described the country as a “beautiful myth.” On his maiden trip to India as part of the five-city King of the Road – India Tour, which features …

Shatrughan Sinha Regrets Not Being Able To Work With Satyajit Ray, Lauds Rich Legacy Of Bengali Cinema
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Shatrughan Sinha Regrets Not Being Able To Work With Satyajit Ray, Lauds Rich Legacy Of Bengali Cinema

ABP News  

Veteran Bollywood actor and MP Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday said the iconic trio of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen had shaped his vision about films, world cinema and India's new wave cinema. Shatrughan Sinha on being inspired by Bengali cinema Speaking at the inauguration of the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival, Sinha credited his time at the Film …

I wish I could have worked in Satyajit Ray's films, says Shatrughan Sinha
3 months, 3 weeks ago

I wish I could have worked in Satyajit Ray's films, says Shatrughan Sinha

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata, Veteran Bollywood actor and MP Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday said the iconic trio of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen had shaped his vision about films, world cinema and India's new wave cinema. I wish I could have worked in Satyajit Ray's films, says Shatrughan Sinha Speaking at the inauguration of the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival, Sinha …

Varun Grover Interview: 'Satyajit Ray Put His Strongest Themes in That One Film'
8 months, 1 week ago

Varun Grover Interview: 'Satyajit Ray Put His Strongest Themes in That One Film'

The Quint  

At that time, the restored prints of Ray’s films were not available. Back then I didn’t see the Goopy Gyne films and the Feluda films like Shonar Kella. When one sees Ray’s work, there’s a general view that his later films, especially the last ones he made, are weak films. So, I think Ray put his strongest themes in that …

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray's Favourite Shooting Locations
1 year, 3 months ago

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray's Favourite Shooting Locations

Firstpost  

When world famous film maker Satyajit Ray decided to make Pather Panchali, he would go on location scouting. The village finally ended up turning into Pather Panchali’s pivotal outdoor location The camera zooms into Satyajit Ray’s favourite shooting locations. Of course, the city has seen vast changes ever since father shot there.” After Aparajito, Ray made two films back to …

Ray-esque | A look at Satyajit Ray's fascinating domestic life
1 year, 7 months ago

Ray-esque | A look at Satyajit Ray's fascinating domestic life

Firstpost  

Movie legend Satyajit Ray’s life at home was chock-a-block from early morning to late night. But, if it happened to be important or formal, father would write out a draft and key into the typewriter,” informs Sandip, Ray’s son. In fact, one of the attractions for well-known writers to contribute to Sandesh is that they could use father’s illustrations when …

From Devi to Nayak, Al posters of Satyajit Ray's masterpieces will make your day
1 year, 10 months ago

From Devi to Nayak, Al posters of Satyajit Ray's masterpieces will make your day

Firstpost  

It was legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s 102nd birth anniversary on 2 May, 2023. A person appreciated the AI interpretation saying, “Very vivid ones…still… Pratiddwandi my choice….” while another said, “Wow…that’s really very interesting interpretation of the maestro’s movie posters but I loved AI interpretation of Goopy & Bagha” https://twitter.com/sardarbuddha/status/1653283872841539584 https://twitter.com/meinhunkabi/status/1653288339351691266 On the other hand, a section of users seemed unhappy …

Satyajit Ray: The script and track of a master storyteller
1 year, 10 months ago

Satyajit Ray: The script and track of a master storyteller

The Hindu  

Satyajit Ray, director, script writer, documentary film-maker, author, illustrator and composer, to name a few, had a flair for sketching from his childhood. Decades later, in an interview with the film critic, Iqbal Masud, on Shatranj Ke Khilari, Ray said, “One can well imagine a treatment of annexation with Wazid painted whiter and General Outram blacker, which would automatically enhance …

Ray-esque | Remembering Satyajit Ray's chief assistant director Ramesh Sen
2 years, 2 months ago

Ray-esque | Remembering Satyajit Ray's chief assistant director Ramesh Sen

Firstpost  

Film virtuoso Satyajit Ray ’s chief assistant director and virtually a member of the Ray family, Ramesh Sen, who passed away on October 6th, 2020, was naturally mentioned by his fair name in the opening titles of Ray’s movies. “This is the juncture when Bansi Chandragupta roped me in to work in Manikda’s 1965 film Nayak as chief assistant director. …

Review: The Cinema of Satyajit Ray by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
2 years, 3 months ago

Review: The Cinema of Satyajit Ray by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

Hindustan Times  

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay’s The Cinema of Satyajit Ray is divided into two parts - the first analyses all 39 of Ray’s films, including his feature films and the controversial documentaries Sikkim and Bala, that he made over 36 years while the second part comprises in-depth interviews with 17 personalities who have been deeply impressed by the auteur’s cinema. Satyajit Ray Vikramaditya …

Ray-esque | From Pandit Ravi Shankar to the Mahabharata; Satyajit Ray’s unrealised films
2 years, 6 months ago

Ray-esque | From Pandit Ravi Shankar to the Mahabharata; Satyajit Ray’s unrealised films

Firstpost  

Movie maestro Satyajit Ray had once contemplated making a short film on virtuosic sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar. “Interestingly, if one flips through the pages of Ashani Sanket’s script, you will discover the unfinished script of Ekti Jibon,” says Sandip. “In wake of Ashani Sanket’s thumping success, father had mulled making a short film, Drobomoyeer Kashibash, based on a writing by …

Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk to be showcased at Toronto film festival
2 years, 6 months ago

Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk to be showcased at Toronto film festival

Hindustan Times  

TORONTO: Less than a month after staging a retrospective of the legendary Indian filmmaker’s work, the Toronto International Film Festival will be showcasing Satyajit Ray’s final feature, Agantuk or The Stranger, at its main event. A still from Satyajit Ray’s final feature, Agantuk. We hope it will appeal to audiences less familiar with Ray’s body of work and also be …

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray’s French Connection
2 years, 7 months ago

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray’s French Connection

Firstpost  

Sandip Ray, Satyajit Ray’s son narrates his father’s relationship with renowned French filmmaker Jean Renoir and how the French equation in Ray’s life took off when he finished making Pather Panchali Renowned French film director Jean Renoir arrives in Calcutta to carve out a new movie creation, his well-known, The River. Thus, he readily embraced the idea of father keeping …

A Ray hero looks back
2 years, 9 months ago

A Ray hero looks back

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 26, 2022 18:00 IST The “Ray Hero” can be perceived as one of the most exclusive clubs in the world of cinema and culture. Dub my voice himself.” Incidentally, Chanda was working in the creative department of Clarion Advertising, the same agency where Ray worked from 1943 to 1956, and while working on the script of Seemabaddha, …

Ray-esque | Sandip Ray on shooting Satyajit Ray’s novel Hatyapuri (The House of Death)
2 years, 9 months ago

Ray-esque | Sandip Ray on shooting Satyajit Ray’s novel Hatyapuri (The House of Death)

Firstpost  

Audiences, please await the cinematic version of maestro Satyajit Ray ’s novel, Hatyapuri. This was simply because the last Feluda movie created by me dates back to 2016.” Hatyapuri, according to Sandip, was not only one his favourite Feluda novels, but his legendary father had expressed “tremendous satisfaction” after penning this detective title. Together with these factors, Sandip’s zeroing in …

Satyajit Ray's film Pratidwandi to be screened at Cannes 2022 today
2 years, 10 months ago

Satyajit Ray's film Pratidwandi to be screened at Cannes 2022 today

India Today  

The 75th Cannes Film Festival began with a bang on May 17 with India being at the centre of focus. While R Madhavan's Rocketry: The Nambi Effect will premiere on Thursday, May 19, at Cannes 2022, another Indian film that will screen at Cannes is legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray's 1970 classic, Pratidwandi. PRATIDWANDI TO SCREEN AT CANNES 2022 The official …

Ray-esque | Late actor Tom Alter’s interaction with ‘Manik da’ aka Satyajit Ray who altered his life
2 years, 11 months ago

Ray-esque | Late actor Tom Alter’s interaction with ‘Manik da’ aka Satyajit Ray who altered his life

Firstpost  

I had chanced to meet well-known actor Tom Alter, who left us in 2017, in November of 2012, when he had come across to Calcutta from Mumbai as a delegate at the Kolkata International Film Festival. And, he said, “Now, you will believe Tom that I haven’t forgotten,” Manikda drove home. “Then, he asked, “Who’s this producer.” I said, “Manikda….” …

Sandip Ray on working with Shashi Kapoor on Satyajit Ray Presents telefilm: 'He was a thorough perfectionist'
3 years, 1 month ago

Sandip Ray on working with Shashi Kapoor on Satyajit Ray Presents telefilm: 'He was a thorough perfectionist'

Firstpost  

To celebrate the centenary year of Satyajit Ray, arguably the most remarkable filmmaker born on Indian soil, Firstpost will explore the lesser known aspects of his life in our column Ray-esque. * Very few would probably recall today that famed actor Shashi Kapoor, who left us not too many years ago, and well-known director Sandip Ray, maestro Satyajit Ray’s son, …

Exploring a lesser known aspect of Satyajit Ray: The masterful filmmaker was also a science fiction enthusiast
3 years, 2 months ago

Exploring a lesser known aspect of Satyajit Ray: The masterful filmmaker was also a science fiction enthusiast

Firstpost  

From founding the Sci-Fi Cine Club in Kolkata to plans to direct a Hollywood sci-fi film, and developing the character of Professor Shanku, Satyajit Ray enjoyed an almost umbilical connect with the science fiction genre. Satyajit Ray and his friend Adrish Bardhan brought to life the Sci-Fi Cine Club. Significantly, the Sci-Fi Cine Club was born even before movie great …

Satyajit Ray's documentaries: A mixed bag
3 years, 5 months ago

Satyajit Ray's documentaries: A mixed bag

The Hindu  

Between 1961 and 1987, Satyajit Ray directed five documentaries and six short films. In 1961, Ray observed the birth centenary of Rabindranath Tagore by making a documentary on the poet for the Films Division of the Government of India, and an omnibus feature film called Teen Kanya, which brought together three short films adapted from well-known Tagore short stories— Monihara, …

Satyajit Ray: Master adapter
3 years, 5 months ago

Satyajit Ray: Master adapter

The Hindu  

Satyajit Ray needs no introduction as a film-maker and a writer. The glorious abandoning of sense in Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol, the posthumous collection of his nonsense poems generally believed to have been inspired by Edward Lear, has delighted and enthralled generations of Bengali children. “Each word spoken in a play is like a fruit in a tree,” says a …

‘Films are pre-Satyajit or post-Satyajit’: Shyam Benegal remembers Satyajit Ray
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Films are pre-Satyajit or post-Satyajit’: Shyam Benegal remembers Satyajit Ray

The Hindu  

Often the mostenduring bonds in life are forged on freak incidents. Back in Hyderabad, he formed a film society, and in 1959 organised a screening of Ray’s films, notably the trilogy of Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar. The illustrious film-maker was wrapping up Nayak when Benegal went to the sets of the film and Ray invited him to a …

‘We need criticism, not hagiography’: Dhritiman Chaterji on Satyajit Ray's relevance in today's world
3 years, 5 months ago

‘We need criticism, not hagiography’: Dhritiman Chaterji on Satyajit Ray's relevance in today's world

The Hindu  

Dhritiman Chaterjiburst uponthe screen as the iconic young Siddhartha Chaudhuri in Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi, the first of the Calcutta trilogy. Excerpts: When the Calcutta trilogy happened 50 years ago, a lot of people were saying that Satyajit Ray had become overtly political; but what is often overlooked is that Ray had just entered what is called the middle age in …

Film time, family time: Sandip Ray on Satyajit Ray
3 years, 5 months ago

Film time, family time: Sandip Ray on Satyajit Ray

The Hindu  

Sandip Ray announcedhis arrival as a film-maker with the release of Phatik Chand in 1983. Excerpts: When you were growing up, Satyajit Ray was publishing one classic story for children after another in ‘Sandesh’. A fairy tale for children You were 13 when Satyajit Ray made ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ in 1969, at a time when there were not many …

Critical insider: Satyajit Ray's cinematic trilogies
3 years, 5 months ago

Critical insider: Satyajit Ray's cinematic trilogies

The Hindu  

Born in 1921, the young Ray was witness to the turbulence and clamour of the nationalist movement, the Bengal famine, the trauma of Partition, communal riots and massive displacement of people. The three trilogies of Ray, made almost two decades apart, in the 1950s, 1970s and 1990s—the Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar ; the Calcutta trilogy: Pratidwandi, …

‘Ray’s vision is universal’: Girish Kasaravalli on Satyajit Ray
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Ray’s vision is universal’: Girish Kasaravalli on Satyajit Ray

The Hindu  

Girish Kasaravalli, Kannada film director, is one of the pioneers of ‘parallel cinema’ in India. I do not think that the films of Ray had such a huge impact on India’s mainstream cinema, for the simple reason that his films, which were in Bengali, were not accessible to film practitioners of other languages, especially those from the south. Ray’s cosmopolitan …

Cinema, for Satyajit Ray, was all about salvation
3 years, 5 months ago

Cinema, for Satyajit Ray, was all about salvation

The Hindu  

Age and decrepitude failed to dismay him, as did the vicissitudes of the box office. As he recounts in My Adventures with Satyajit Ray: The Making of Shatranj ke Khilari : “My first film, Rajnigandha, based on the story ‘Yehi Sach Hai’ by Mannu Bhandari, turned out to be the sleeper hit of the year. It came with a warning: …

Celebrating Satyajit Ray
3 years, 5 months ago

Celebrating Satyajit Ray

The Hindu  

About three months ago, when this Special Issue dedicated to Satyajit Ray was just an idea, in an unRayesque coincidence as it were, an email landed in my inbox, offering the first ray of hope. Apart from writing the lead article, he has been of great help in taking the idea forward by sending me the text of his conversations …

‘He lived life cinema’: Adoor Gopalakrishnan on Satyajit Ray
3 years, 5 months ago

‘He lived life cinema’: Adoor Gopalakrishnan on Satyajit Ray

The Hindu  

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, one of the most notable and renowned film-makers in India, pioneered the new wave in Malayalam cinema during the 1970s. Venkiteswaran on Satyajit Ray’s legacy: Satyajit Ray brought about a radical break in Indian cinema in terms of aesthetics, form, content and narrative style. Then came his comment, “Now I understand.” In the last three films of Ray, …

Satyajit Ray's son Sandip says he's 'hearing both praises and criticisms' for Netflix series, is yet to watch it
3 years, 8 months ago

Satyajit Ray's son Sandip says he's 'hearing both praises and criticisms' for Netflix series, is yet to watch it

Hindustan Times  

Sandip Ray, the son of writer-director Satyajit Ray, has said that he hasn't yet seen the four-part Netflix anthology based on his father's short stories, but is aware of the mixed reception that it has received. Ray, created by Sayantan Mukherjee, features four films directed by Srijit Mukherji, Abhishek Chaubey, and Vasan Bala. Ray's four chapters include Srijit Mukherji's Bahupriya …

Scared Of Watching ‘Ray’: Satyajit Ray’s Son Reacts To Netflix’s Latest Release
3 years, 8 months ago

Scared Of Watching ‘Ray’: Satyajit Ray’s Son Reacts To Netflix’s Latest Release

News 18  

The latest release on Netflix, Ray, an anthology-based series, since its release on the OTT platform on June 25 has been getting mixed reviews from critics and viewers. Based on four short stories of the master auteur Satyajit Ray the series stars actors Manoj Bajpayee, Kay Kay Menon, Ali Fazal and Radhika Madan among others. A famed media portal got …

’Ray’ review: Manoj Bajpayee dazzles in this tribute to Satyajit Ray
3 years, 9 months ago

’Ray’ review: Manoj Bajpayee dazzles in this tribute to Satyajit Ray

Live Mint  

Satyajit Ray did everything. Abhishek Chaubey directs Bajpayee in Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa, a Ghulam Ali-tinged adaptation of one of my most loved Ray stories, Barin Bhowmick’s Ailment. Much of Ray’s adventure takes place inside the hero’s head, something Chaubey handles brilliantly by letting Bajpayee not only talk to a mirror but to address an imaginary, admiring audience. Bala deviously …

Ray review: Netflix India's attempted love affair with Satyajit Ray is painfully one-note, sans any nuance
3 years, 9 months ago

Ray review: Netflix India's attempted love affair with Satyajit Ray is painfully one-note, sans any nuance

Firstpost  

In an attempt to intellectualise Satyajit Ray through a contemporary lens, Netflix India’s Ray completely alienates his humanism and effortlessness in portraying people’s vulnerabilities “I’ve written all types of stories, but I usually like to write about lonely people and things happening to them.” ~ Satyajit Ray. And thus begins Netflix’s attempted love affair with the auteur’s short stories in …

Ray Anthology Review: Manoj Bajpayee, Gajraj Rao Most Engaging in Adaptation of Master's Stories
3 years, 9 months ago

Ray Anthology Review: Manoj Bajpayee, Gajraj Rao Most Engaging in Adaptation of Master's Stories

News 18  

Ray Directors: Srijit Mukherjee, Abhishek Chaubey, Vasan Bala Cast: Ali Fazal, Shruthy Menon, Shweta Basu Prasad ; Kay Kay Menon ; Manoj Bajpayee, Gajaraj Rao ; Harshvarrdhan Kapoor, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Radhika Madan. The other episode by Mukherji, Bahrupiya, has Kay Kay Menon playing a movie makeup artist, who uses his skills to destroy his adversaries, but soon reaches a …

Tracing Satyajit Ray's influence on Hindi cinema; Netflix anthology on auteur's short stories is only a drop in the ocean
3 years, 9 months ago

Tracing Satyajit Ray's influence on Hindi cinema; Netflix anthology on auteur's short stories is only a drop in the ocean

Firstpost  

In one of the most famous quotes to emerge from the world of cinema, Akira Kurosawa once said, “Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.” Satyajit Ray, the auteur from Bengal, whose centenary year we continue to celebrate, put Indian cinema on the world map in the …

'Went in with reverence, never held back what we wanted to express': Ray directors, cast on adapting Satyajit Ray's works
3 years, 9 months ago

'Went in with reverence, never held back what we wanted to express': Ray directors, cast on adapting Satyajit Ray's works

Firstpost  

Directors Srijit Mukherji and Vasan Bala, and actors Kay Kay Menon, Harshvardhan Kapoor, and Akansha Ranjan Kapoor open up about their fears of adapting well-known texts, humanising their characters, and how they married style and substance. Ray, Netflix India’s upcoming Original anthology series, is filmmaker Srijit Mukherji, Vasan Bala, and Abhishek Chaubey’s ode to the legendary auteur’s short stories. Director …

Ray on Netflix on June 25. Which Satyajit Ray stories inspired the Manoj Bajpayee and Ali Fazal series?
3 years, 9 months ago

Ray on Netflix on June 25. Which Satyajit Ray stories inspired the Manoj Bajpayee and Ali Fazal series?

India Today  

Netflix dropped the trailer of Ray, an anthology series which is helmed by Abhishek Chaubey, Srijit Mukherji and Vasan Bala. The drama series is inspired by four of Satyajit Ray’s stories Spotlight, Bahurupi, Barin Bhowmik-er Byaram and Bipin Chowdhury'r Smritibhrom. FORGET ME NOT, INSPIRED BY BIPIN CHOWDHURY'R SMRITIBHROM If you have watched the trailer of Ray, you will be aware …

RAY Trailer Out Now: Manoj Bajpayee, Ali Fazal Lead This Tribute to Satyajit Ray
3 years, 9 months ago

RAY Trailer Out Now: Manoj Bajpayee, Ali Fazal Lead This Tribute to Satyajit Ray

News 18  

The trailer of the highly anticipated Netflix anthology RAY is out now. The anthology, which consists of four films- Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa, Forget Me Not, Bahrupiya and Spotlight- is being helmed by Abhishek Chaubey, Srijit Mukherji and Vasan Bala. The anthology also boasts of a star-studded cast including Manoj Bajpayee, Kay Kay Menon, Ali Fazal, Harshvarrdhan Kapoor, Radhika Madan, …

Shikha Mukerjee | Revisiting the legend @100: Ray's iconic role to endure
3 years, 10 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Revisiting the legend @100: Ray's iconic role to endure

Deccan Chronicle  

Cultural power surpasses the transient aggregation of political heft in West Bengal. When Ray died in 1992, even manufacturers of objects as entirely mundane as shovels and construction equipment offered their tribute through It is revealing of West Bengal’s unusual ethos that even the BJP, with its claim to being the world’s largest party, scrambled to deploy Satyajit Ray to …

Satyajit Ray's Death Anniversary: A Look at the Auteur's Impact on Filmmakers
3 years, 11 months ago

Satyajit Ray's Death Anniversary: A Look at the Auteur's Impact on Filmmakers

News 18  

It has been 29 years since the legendary auteur departed this life, but not before putting Indian cinema on the global map forever. The scene in which Vidya Balan moves from window to window in the guest-house room finds its inspiration from the famous opening sequence of Ray’s 1964 film Charulata, where Madhabi Mukherjee can be seen traversing from one …

Opinion | The perils of being Sandip Roy in Satyajit Ray’s city
4 years, 10 months ago

Opinion | The perils of being Sandip Roy in Satyajit Ray’s city

Live Mint  

It was Day 1 of the Great Indian Lockdown. Only later did it dawn on me that the poor journalist must have thought he was speaking to the other Sandip Ray, Satyajit Ray’s son. Later, I heard that someone in the audience was asking her companion, “Is that Satyajit Ray’s son?” Her companion, who was looking at me, clearly visible, …

This Satyajit Ray film deeply impacted KV Anand
5 years, 6 months ago

This Satyajit Ray film deeply impacted KV Anand

The Hindu  

KV Anand was a photojournalist before taking the plunge into the world of films. Jalsaghar I am a big fan of Satyajit Ray’s movies. Jalsaghar was one of Ray’s films that kept running in my head even after exiting the cinema hall. At a time when Tamil cinema gave in to a stereotypical portrayal of women, showing them as humble …

Remembering Satyajit Ray: An Incredible Storyteller
5 years, 11 months ago

Remembering Satyajit Ray: An Incredible Storyteller

India TV News  

Born in Calcutta, now Kolkata, Satyajit Ray was an Indian director famous for his perfection in the craft of filmmaking. Recognized as one of the masters of world cinema, Satyajit Ray made films in the Bengali language. Ray's other films like Charulata, Jalsaghar, Teen Kanya, Abhijan and so on introduced the parallel cinema in the 20th century. Apart from writing …

Srijit Mukherjee to direct web series based on Satyajit Ray's short stories
6 years, 10 months ago

Srijit Mukherjee to direct web series based on Satyajit Ray's short stories

India TV News  

National Award-winning director Srijit Mukherjee will helm a web series based on short stories by iconic filmmaker and writer Satyajit Ray. X Ray - Selected Satyajit Shorts, a 12-part web series, will be produced by Viacom 18's digital content arm, Tipping Point, along with Mukherji. Ray, known for his iconic films Pather Panchali and Charulata, also wrote several short stories …

Agantuk: Through Utpal Dutt's character, Satyajit Ray articulated his views on civilisation's illusory nature
7 years ago

Agantuk: Through Utpal Dutt's character, Satyajit Ray articulated his views on civilisation's illusory nature

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. In this column starting 25 June 2017, we discuss and dissect the films of Satyajit Ray, in a bid to understand what really makes him one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Utpal Dutt gives one of …

Nayak: Easily one of Satyajit Ray’s most incisive and detailed studies of human nature
7 years, 2 months ago

Nayak: Easily one of Satyajit Ray’s most incisive and detailed studies of human nature

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Told in free style, punctuated with the occasional humour and smart wit, running back and forth thanks to flashbacks and dream sequences, and taking its time to denude the protagonist of his external garb of casual indifference, Nayak is …

The Inner Eye: Satyajit Ray's portrait of the great artist Benode Behari Mukherjee
7 years, 3 months ago

The Inner Eye: Satyajit Ray's portrait of the great artist Benode Behari Mukherjee

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. It was at Shantiniketan that Ray met the eminent artist Benode Behari Mukherjee, who was a member of the faculty there. Benode Behari was severely myopic in one eye and blind in the other, but despite his physical handicap, …

Ghare Baire: A rare Satyajit Ray film which is not just weak, but also a tragic loss of opportunity
7 years, 4 months ago

Ghare Baire: A rare Satyajit Ray film which is not just weak, but also a tragic loss of opportunity

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. And finally, there’s Nikhilesh’s friend Sandip Mukherjee — a charismatic revolutionary waging war against British rule in India through the Swadeshi movement. More than anything else, Ghare Baire is perhaps the first film in which Ray seemed to have …

Chiriyakhana: Satyajit Ray's take on detective Byomkesh Bakshi was possibly his worst film
7 years, 4 months ago

Chiriyakhana: Satyajit Ray's take on detective Byomkesh Bakshi was possibly his worst film

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. But those unfamiliar with Ray’s filmography probably may not know that he had also made a film on the other popular sleuth of Bengal — detective Byomkesh Bakshi. While all the ingredients seemed to be in the right place …

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