The Inner Eye: Satyajit Ray's portrait of the great artist Benode Behari Mukherjee
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, he was an artist par excellence, who continued to produce one remarkable work of art after another. In his own baritone voice and impeccable diction, Satyajit Ray goes on to narrate Benode Behari’s family background, and how, at a very early age, he showed great promise in sketching and drawing. With shades of influences from various disparate art forms from all over the world, and yet all of them coming together as a synthesized, cohesive and organic whole, it is virtually impossible to believe that the entire fresco was painted directly on the walls, without any preliminary tracing whatsoever — a feat that only reveals the remarkable confidence that an artist of Benode Behari’s stature had in his own capabilities.
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