Satyajit Ray

The Criterion Collection maintains a leading role in the restoration and presentation of classics and the rediscovery of less familiar masterworks of world cinema, as they've done with this drama by Satyajit Ray, from 1966 (available in DVD and Blu-ray formats). “The Hero” is an exemplary work of reflexive ...

Featuring Bengali movies, including those directed by Satyajit Ray, it's a great idea. However, the website often hangs at the subscription page, forcing you to rely on the app. Obviously the Ray and Ghosh classics bear watching and re-watching. With more than 500 Bengali films where "subscribers are ...

Satyajit Ray's movie made into a book by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay. Satyajit Ray's legendary Bengali movie ... Satyajit Ray's legendary Bengali movie Nayak is being adapted into a book by author and translator Bhaskar Chattopadhyay, titled Nayak: The Hero. The original screenplay was written by Ray ...

Hollywood director Christopher Nolan hailed legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray's work, calling his film Pather Panchali “extraordinary”at an event in Mumbai over the weekend. The director, who has made cult films such as The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, also expressed his desire to ...

As desis who are often made fun of around the world for our Bollywood song-and-dance movies, we take this moment as our proudest ever. Because guess what, Christopher Nolan just said he watched the goddamn amazing Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali and thought it was the most 'extraordinary' piece ...

Failing that, you should, maybe, be able to recite three of Tagore's most obscure poems with feeling, and know every Satyajit Ray film ever made. In 2006, Sourav Ganguly—Kolkata's biggest sporting icon—was a junior member on the Club's 10-year wait list for full membership. Should you manage to get in ...

Bengali director Sandip Ray's latest movie features one of Satyajit Ray's best-known literary creations. Not the detective Feluda, but Professor Shonku, the scientist and eccentric genius who was introduced by Sandip Ray's father in 1961. Sandip Ray's Professor Shonku O El Dorado is based on the story ...

Satyajit Ray's 1966 film The Hero is a slyly self-reflexive commentary on contemporaneous Bengali filmmaking—both commercially popular films as well as his own more modest style of “parallel cinema”—couched in ever-shifting layers of irony and moral complexity. Those qualities extend to the film's very ...

With a few exceptions, the works of Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray have been difficult to track down on home video, so here we celebrate the video debut of his 1966 The Hero (Nayak) in a gloriously clear 2K digital restoration, courtesy of the Criterion Collection. As Indian film scholar Meheli Sen points out ...

It was 1974 and I was a teenager on holiday from my English boarding school, meeting cousins, uncles, and my parents' ancestral homeland for the first time. The monsoons were heavy that year, but I suddenly found myself rattling all around India—Bombay to Secunderabad, and thence to Bangalore and ...

Satyajit Ray was only the second Indian to win an Oscar after Bhanu Athaiya. While Athaiya got hers for the costumes for Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic Gandhi, Ray was awarded his in 1991 for a lifetime of achievements, starting with Pather Panchali in 1955. The filmmaker was severely ill when he ...

A series of four plays that celebrated the work of author Satyajit Ray drew scores of people on the final day of the Hindustan Times Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. The plays were presented by the theatre group Tantra, set up by a group of corporate executives, at Si Bambai. “We have borrowed the concept and ...

The Oscar-nominated Iranian filmmaker says it is a pity that the style of filmmaking of legends like Satyajit Ray and Shyam Benegal has got lost with time in India, but feels today's filmmakers have the potential to revive it. “I knew India from Satyajit Ray's cinema. And then, through my travels and trips, I got ...

What can be said about the City of Joy that has not been said before? From the rustic lanes to the lost-in-the-clouds highrises, the age-old Howrah Bridge to the bustle at Quest Mall, people have, in their own ways, described what Kolkata (Calcutta) is to them. It holds a special place in the hearts of those ...