Humanity and Ray

I always feel that not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sky and the earth. The characters of Ray’s films

Interview: Raghu Rai

‘His eyes spoke everything’: Raghu Rai remembers Satyajit Ray

Interview with Raghu Rai, photographer.

Satyajit Ray: Master adapter

A delightful collection of Satyajit Ray’s translation of poems and stories of his father, Sukumar Ray, the folk tales put into writing by his grandfat

Satyajit Ray's documentaries: A mixed bag

When it came to documentaries, with the exception of The Inner Eye on the blind painting genius Benode Behari Mukhopadhyay, Satyajit Ray did not scale

Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Working with Ravi Shankar: The Music of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy

An extract from The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and The Making of an Epic.

Andrew Robinson

Interview: Shyam Benegal

‘Films are pre-Satyajit or post-Satyajit’: Shyam Benegal remembers Satyajit Ray

Interview with the film-maker Shyam Benegal.

INTERVIEW: APARNA SEN

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

“Ray was famously accused by Nargis of selling India’s poverty, whereas he gave a face to rural poverty. He made us identify with the characters; he i

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

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Unlikely colleagues: Satyajit Ray and Gaston Roberge

The friendship between a French-Canadian Jesuit and a Bengali film-maker led to path-breaking work in film studies.

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Satyajit Ray’s French connection

Meeting Jean Renoir undoubtedly changed Ray’s life, not in an abrupt manner, which would have been uncharacteristic of his response to people, but bec

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‘I was like a daughter to him’: Saswati Sen on Satyajit Ray

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‘We need criticism, not hagiography’: Dhritiman Chaterji on Satyajit Ray's relevance in today's world

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Nemai Ghosh: Satyajit Ray’s Boswell

Nemai Ghosh (1934-2020) photographed Satyajit Ray at work and scenes from his films from 1968 to 1992.

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