Life, films and filmmaking of Satyajit Ray...
About SatyajitRay.org
Satyajit Ray Org has a mission of promoting discussion and study of Satyajit Ray’s films and filmmaking. Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award ©A.M.P.A.S. ® – Lifetime Achievement.
Different Facets Of Ray...
About Ray
Satyajit Ray, an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. A true auteur, Ray directly controlled many aspects of filmmaking.
Biography
Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921, in an intellectual and affluent family in Calcutta, India. His grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray was a distinguished writer, painter, a violin player and a composer.
Filmography
The success of Pather Panchali gave Ray total control over his subsequent films. What followed was a long career as a world-class filmmaker. Until 1981, he would make a feature length film every year.
Filmmaking
Satyajit Ray maintained that the best technique of filmmaking was the one that was not noticeable.
He disliked the idea of a film that drew attention to its style rather than the contents.
Our Favorite Ray Films...
Pather Panchali
(1955, Song of the Little Road)
Charulata
(1964, The Lonely Wife)
Jalsaghar
(1958, The Music Room)
Ghare-Baire
(1984, Home and the World)
…my main preoccupation as a filmmaker … has been to find out ways of investing a story with organic cohesion, and filling it with detailed and truthful observation of human behaviour and relationships in a given milieu and a given set of events, avoiding stereotypes and stock situations, and sustaining interest visually, aurally and emotionally by a judicious use of the human and technical resources…
Satyajit Ray
(The new cinema and I, Cinema Visions, July 1980)
Explore...
- Growing up, 1921-39
- At Shantiniketan, 1940-42
- Advertising & Graphic Design, 1943
- Calcutta Film Society, 1947
- Encounter With Jean Renoir, 1949
- The ‘Bicycle Thieves’ Effect, 1950
- Making of Pather Panchali, 1950-55
- Triumph of Pather Panchali, 1955
- A Film a Year, 1956-1981
- Ray’s Literary Career, 1961-1992
- The Final Offerings, 1984-1992
- Films directed by Ray
- Pather Panchali
- Aparajito
- Parash Pathar
- Jalsaghar
- Apur Sansar
- Devi
- Teen Kanya
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Kanchenjungha
- Abhijan
- Mahanagar
- Charulata
- Two
- Kapurush – O – Mahapurush
- Nayak
- Chiriyakhana
- Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
- Aranyer Din Ratri
- Pratidwandi
- Seemabaddha
- Sikkim
- The Inner Eye
- Ashani Sanket
- Sonar Kella
- Jana Aranya
- Bala
- Shantranj Ke Khilari
- Joi Baba Felunath
- Hirak Rajar Deshe
- Pikoo
- Sadgati
- Ghare-Baire
- Sukumar Ray
- Ganashatru
- Shakha Prashakha
- Agantuk
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