Celebrating Satyajit Ray
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 with Ray over a period, writing a piece on the master film-maker’s French connection and influence, permitting me to reproduce an extract from his book The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic that describes how Ray vibed with the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar who composed most of the music for the trilogy, paying a tribute to Nemai Ghosh, who is known as Ray’s photographer, and sharing visuals and ideas for visuals that could go in the issue. Satyaki Ghosh, son of Nemai Ghosh, was generous in permitting us to use extraordinary photographs of Ray on sets and film stills from his father’s oeuvre. That was the kind of extraordinary warmth and respect the man evoked three decades after he left the scene and six decades after his Pather Panchali took the film world by storm—the man who disliked the first Bengali film he saw as a boy, who wanted to become a commercial artist, and who, as a hater of superstition, would have scoffed at a prediction by an astrologer that he would become internationally famous ‘through the use of light’.
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