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A Must Read Interview of Satyajit Ray By James Blue in the Summer 1968 Issue This interview with Satyajit Ray was tape-recorded by Blue as preparation for his book on the directing of the non-actor in film. This special research has been sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Blue, at the time of the interview, was visiting India while directing A Few Notes on Our Food

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    Source:indianexpress.com Written by Shivangi Jalan |New Delhi |Published: May 2, 2018 2:42:57 pm Interesting facts about the legendary filmmaker: Satyajit Ray on his 97th Birthday.  Legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray would have celebrated his 97th birthday today. The filmmaker not only played a major role in placing India on the global cinematic map but his

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Satyajit Ray’s 1955 film Pather Panchali is the only Indian film on the BBC’s list of the 100 best foreign-language films of the 21st century. Source: Hindustan Times Oct 31, 2018 15:56 IST The BBC has unveiled their list of the 100 best foreign-language films of the 21st century. Over 200 critics from 43 countries took part in the poll, which judged Akira Kurosawa’s Seven

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Source: indianexpress.com Describing Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece “Pather Panchali” as the Bible of his life, Bollywood director Shoojit Sircar has conceded he copies the works of the maestro. “Actually I copy him. You won’t notice what I am copying but I know what I am copying. I do it in whatever film I do. It is the Bible of my life,” Sircar said at a function here today

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Source:  Rezaul H Laskar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi |  Updated: May 02, 2015 15:20 IST Satyajit Ray on the sets of Sonar Kella. (HT Photo) Nearly a quarter of a century after Satyajit Ray’s death, the jury is still out on whether a script written by the acclaimed director in 1967 was the genesis of Steven Spielberg’s hit E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. The story of The

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Source: This interview was originally published in Sight and Sound, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Winter 1972-73), pp. 31-37, and was reprinted in Satyajit Ray: Interviews, edited by Bert Cardullo (University Press of Mississippi, 2007), pp. 53-60. It has been slightly edited for its presentation on TV Multiversity. Another Interview: Satyajit Ray on the 'Calcutta Trilogy' Satyajit

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                                                        A collage of Sir Satyajit Ray This is a blog on Sir Satyajit Ray.  A place to discuss, enrich your knowledge and also pay your tribute to this great personality. This

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  At the age of 22, long before Ray entered the world of film making, his mother once took him to an astrologer. The astrologer predicted that he would become internationally famous 'through the use of light'. Ray forgot all about this prediction till 1955, when is mother reminded him.

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Well I must thanks Facebook and the friends I have there... Its because of them that I got many info on Ray and his works... Here is another for all my Ray Fans out there... A set of related videos on Ray ... Click here

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Source -  Andrew Robinson's the inner eye Part -1 The story begins with Ramsundar Deo, the earliest-known ancestor of Ray family, a Hindu by religion, a youth by age, moved from a village in West Bengal to East Bengal (now Bangladesh), wondering there, he reached a village called ‘Serpur’ where at the local zamindar’s house he met the ruler of a nearby place called ‘Yasodal’. He likes

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Source: TOI   For 36 long years that Satyajit Ray made films, Dulal Dutta had been his constant companion. From Pather Panchali to Agantuk, Dutta edited all his films. After Ray's death, Dutta worked in Uttaran and Target that were directed by the master filmmaker's son, Sandip. The 86-year-old passed away on Tuesday night following prolonged illness. "The Tollygunge film industry

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Born: 12 October 1930, Calcutta, India.Died: 8 December 2001, Calcutta, India.Education: [Architecture and Science]. Career: Started as still ph. Without ever having touched a movie camera, he ph Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali'. Mitra was a pioneer of 'available light' cinematography, and he popularized the Arriflex-Nagra combination, for image and sound, respectively, in the 1950s.Was a member

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One of the four fonts designed by Ray Ray's cover design fr his father Sukumar Ray's book on typograph-"Bornomala Tathwa o Bibidho Probondho" published from Signet Press Ray..on the sets of his swansong AGANTUK, with Bikram Bhattacharjya who played d role of Satyaki in d film. Bikram is nw a scientist doin research at US. He hav heard his CHOT DADU's words and ahv escaped frm

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Source: TOI Last month, the Film Society of Lincoln Center showcased the second part of their Satyajit Ray retrospective. The programme, 'Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray', featured the Bengali master's films — all restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — from the 1970s, until the end of his career in early 1990s when his health was failing, and that was

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For more details regarding the above movie, click here Video Source : RajshriBengali

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Source: TOIKOLKATA: Nineteen years after Satyajit Ray breathed his last in 1992 at the age of 70, cine buffs in the city continue to mourn the passing away of the legendary director. Though contemporary Bengali cinema has come of age in recent years with interesting scripts and competent direction, movie-goers continue to miss Ray's midas tough.On the sidelines of a function organized by Ekhon

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For all my lovely readers here comes a new series of articles, named 'From the Diaries of Ray'. This articles will share the great director's personal thoughts and experiences. The extracts are taken from the books written on & by him. Coming soon

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Another link to audio book based stories adapted from Ray's works. Sunday Suspense - Audio-Book Based On Short Story Of Satyajit Ray.  Weekly AIRED ON Radio Mirchi. Voice : RJ Mir,Neel,Sree and Sabyasachi Chakborty and Others !! NB- All the stories are in mp3 format (124kbps), and in Bengali Language.  Click here to go to the download page Thanks to Arindam Ghose who mailed me

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Cover-design for Pramada Ranjan Ray's "BON'er KHOBOR"(news frm the Forest) by Ray. Ray's costume-design for d character of 'Sobha-Kobi'(Court poet) fr HIRAK RAJAR DESHE. Costume designs for the ministers in the court of HIROK RAJA.. Designed by Ray. Ray with Kishore Kumar and Amit Kumar. Kishore Kumar's first wife, Mrs Ruma Guha Thakurtha was Ray's niece. Kishore shared a warm

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Chhorie die 'Shakha proshakha' 'Goopy Bagha'-r sone/ 'Hirok rajar deshe' jabo notun 'Abhijan'-e/ 'Agontuk'-er sathe 'Sonar Kella'-r khoje jabo,/ 'Jana Aranya'-e khuje tomay 'Mahanagar'-ei pabo,/ 'Ghare Baire' jodi dekhi notun 'Pratidwandi'/ Bhabbo tader 'Ganashatru'? Se noy obhisondhi!/ 'Seemaboddho' jibon fele 'Parash Pathar' pelam, 'Aporajito' 'Nayok', Maharaja tomay selam!- Sagnik

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