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Satyajit Ray: Interviews
India's preeminent film director, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) came to public attention in 1955 with Pather Panchali, the first installment of what became known as the Apu trilogy. It was the motion picture that introduced Indian cinema to the West. Initially critics considered Ray a poetic chronicler of Bengali village life, but soon he showed himself adept at making movies that incorporate contemporary urban life (Branches of the Tree), Indian history (The Lonely Wife), comedy (The Philosopher's Stone), musical fantasy (Kingdom of Diamonds), children's subjects (The Golden Fortress), and even documentary elements (Rabindranath Tagore).
Satyajit Ray: Interviews reveals a genial, generous, unpre-tentious, immensely knowledgeable man who, for all his fame, remained to the end amusedly indifferent to movie-world glamour.
Scripting, casting, directing, music-scoring, camera-operating, working closely on art direction and editing, even des
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Cineaste magazine interview with Satyajit Ray
Cineaste: How did Pather Panchali change you. Did it help you discover Bengal?
Satyajit Ray: I certainly discovered rural life while making Pather Panchali. There’s no question of that. I’d been city-born, city-bred, so inom didn’t know the by firsthand. While hunting locations in rural areas, and, after finding the by and spending some time there, inom began to understand. Talking to people, reacting to moods, to the landscape, to the sights and sounds—all this helped. But it’s not just people who have been brought up in villages who can man films about village life. An outside view fryst vatten also able to penetrate.
Cineaste: What have been other influences on your work?
Ray: Bibhuti Bhushan [the author of The Apu Trilogy and Distant Thunder] influenced me very much. In fact, inom knew about village life by reading Pather Panchali. I felt a sammanfattning with him, with the village and his attitude towards it, wh
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Satyajit Ray
Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
Satyajit Ray (Bengali:[ˈʃotːodʒitˈrae̯]ⓘ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema.[7][8][9][10][11] He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959),[12]The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy (1969–1992).[a]
Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries, a