Apur Sansar: Satyajit Ray's famed Apu Trilogy ends with a fascinating study of love and loss
7 years ago

Apur Sansar: Satyajit Ray's famed Apu Trilogy ends with a fascinating study of love and loss

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Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Satyajit Ray’s fascination with Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s immortal creation Apu lasted across three films, collectively known in the world of cinema as the Apu trilogy. As the beautiful Aparna — the vermillion dot on her forehead now slightly smudged — tries to leave the bed, she finds the free end of her sari tied in a knot to Apu’s clothes. In a state of indescribable grief, disbelief, shock and sheer rage, the otherwise mild-mannered and sensitive Apu clenches his teeth and punches the bearer of the news across the face — a sudden surge of uncontrollable emotion so beautifully understood by Ray and portrayed by his leading man Soumitra Chattopadhyay that it aches one’s heart just to think about it. Or the fleeting moment of sadness on Apu’s face when Aparna’s mother blesses him with a long life — a moment when he perhaps remembers his own mother.

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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 …

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 …

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, …

Unlikely colleagues: Satyajit Ray and Gaston Roberge
3 years, 5 months ago

Unlikely colleagues: Satyajit Ray and Gaston Roberge

The Hindu  

IT was a unique friendship that developed between a French-Canadian priest and one of the world’s greatest film directors, and had a singular impact on Bengali films both academically and practically. To Roberge, the greatest mark of Ray’s appreciation for him was that he often addressed the French-speaking priest in Bengali, “in spite of my lack of elegance in that …

‘Apu’ in a changing India: Aparna Sen on Satyajit Ray
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Apu’ in a changing India: Aparna Sen on Satyajit Ray

The Hindu  

The eminent film- Aparna Sen, who is also one of the biggest stars of the Bengali screen, had acted in several of Satyajit Ray’s films, including Teen Kanya and Pikoo, and shared a close personal relationship with him throughout his life. In my opinion, in all of Ray’s films I see ‘Apu’ changing along with India, even though the films …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 Feluda and Professor Shonku to be incorporated in a film on director's centenary
4 years, 5 months ago

Satyajit Ray's Feluda and Professor Shonku to be incorporated in a film on director's centenary

Firstpost  

Bankrolled by SVF Films, Satyajit Ray’s iconic characters Feluda and Professor Shonku will feature in a yet-to-be-titled film directed by his son Sandip Ray. The film industry along with the rest of the country will observe the 100th birth anniversary of veteran filmmaker Satyajit Ray in 2021. To make the centenary of the director memorable, Bengal’s media and entertainment house …

Satyajit Ray birth anniversary: Remembering an incredible storyteller through 5 must-read books
4 years, 10 months ago

Satyajit Ray birth anniversary: Remembering an incredible storyteller through 5 must-read books

India TV News  

Satyajit Ray's name in the field of art is well known. The Complete Adventures of Feluda Satyajit Ray books on his birth anniversary The book is filled with different intriguing and suspenseful stories written by Ray. Indigo Satyajit Ray books on his birth anniversary Stories of the supernatural, this collection of short stories is a favourite with the young and …

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 …

Satyajit Ray never made us memorise dialogues: Sharmila Tagore
6 years, 10 months ago

Satyajit Ray never made us memorise dialogues: Sharmila Tagore

The Quint  

New Delhi, May 15 Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, who began her career with Satyajit Ray's 1959 Bengali film "Apur Sansar" at the age of a mere 13, says the late legendary filmmaker never made child artistes memorise dialogues. Hailing Ray as a man of ideas who was "not at all influenced by the market driven world", Sharmila also shed light …

On Aparajito, Pather Panchali's successor and Satyajit Ray's commentary on new vs old
7 years ago

On Aparajito, Pather Panchali's successor and Satyajit Ray's commentary on new vs old

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. After the unprecedented popularity of his debut film Pather Panchali, the idea of filming a sequel began to emerge in Satyajit Ray’s mind. The fact that Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel of the same name had a sequel, and that it …

Padmaavat: With Bhansali's final saga of tragic romance, a look at Indian cinema's tryst with trilogies
7 years, 1 month ago

Padmaavat: With Bhansali's final saga of tragic romance, a look at Indian cinema's tryst with trilogies

Firstpost  

Filmmaker Karan Johar’s recent announcement of producing Brahmastra with a stellar cast comprising Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, was reported by every publication. But what skipped people’s attention was the fact that the announcement also mentioned the making of a trilogy, meaning that two more films will follow Brahmastra, with a common thread linking all the three outings. …

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 …

Jana Aranya: Satyajit Ray's most cynical, ruthless film resonates with today's world
7 years, 8 months ago

Jana Aranya: Satyajit Ray's most cynical, ruthless film resonates with today's world

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: In a prolific career spanning nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Jana Aranya is perhaps Ray’s most ruthless film, in which he doesn’t hold back from dealing one blow after another. In another scene, Ray explores the mind of the average Bengali Brahmin young man beautifully when Somnath shows his …

Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy' in top five greatest Asian films
9 years, 5 months ago

Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy' in top five greatest Asian films

India TV News  

Busan : Celebrated filmmaker Satyajit Ray's ‘The Apu Trilogy' is among the top five greatest Asian films of all-time, it was announced at the Busan International Film Festival here. The Busan International Film Festival is marking its 20th anniversary with a list of the 100 best Asian films of all time, based on a poll of 73 noted filmmakers and …

'No conflict with Ray, just plain differences'
16 years, 8 months ago

'No conflict with Ray, just plain differences'

Hindustan Times  

Do not categorise cinema as parallel, middle or commercial. In the early '60s, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Lue Goddard, Louis Malle and Claude Chabrol started the New Wave in French cinema, which influenced international films in a big way. In our country, except for the earlier films of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Adoor Gopalakr- ishan, no other films are of international …

Exploring Apu's world
19 years, 9 months ago

Exploring Apu's world

The Hindu  

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Satyajit Ray's celluloid classic Pather Panchali, a look at The Apu Trilogy, based on Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay's novels. Satyajit Ray liked to describe Bibhuti Bhushan's novel as an "encyclopaedia of rural life". Bibhuti Bhushan could develop his mother-son relationship over several hundred pages, he could afford to follow the growth of Apu's …

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