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4 unusual facts about Satyajit Ray


Mid-August Lunch

Additionally, it won awards at several other film festivals including the David Di Donatello Awards, the Satyajit Ray Award at the London Film Festival, and the Golden Snail award at the Academy of Food and Film in Bologna.

Nemai Ghosh

Nemai Ghosh (photographer) (b. 1934), Indian photographer most known for working with Satyajit Ray.

Palo y hueso

The reviewer went on to detect the influence of filmmakers such as Alain Robbe-Grillet or Marguerite Duras, but felt that the tight psychological characterization, disciplined acting and stark sets were more reminiscent of Kenji Mizoguchi or Satyajit Ray.

The Noon Gun

The Noon Gun was shortlisted, along with 6 other films, for The Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Competition in London.


Abar Aranye

The film features the characters from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, returning to the forest over thirty years later.

Academy Film Archive

Notable preservation projects include Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950); many Stan Brakhage films from the original elements; and with support from the Film Foundation, Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961), and 18 films by Satyajit Ray.

Apanjan

It was a good two years ahead of better known films that dealt with urban issues, such as Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi and Mrinal Sen's Interview.

Asha Pande

She is one of few Indians who have received this honour, other Indians being Satyajit Ray, Ravi Shankar, R.K. Pachauri, Amitabh Bachchan and Amartya Sen.

Benode Behari Mukherjee

In 1972 Mukherjee's former student at Santiniketan, filmmaker Satyajit Ray, made a documentary film on him titled "The Inner Eye".

Bijaya Jena

Jena had entered the Indian Film Industry in the 1980s, when Industry was going through a transition and the New Wave Cinema or Serious Cinema (or Art Cinema) which had flourished through the 50s and 60s (under the aegis of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen and Shyam Benegal) was floundering and dying in the 80s.

Carnivalesque

The carnivalesque was employed in the 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest), directed by Satyajit Ray.

Dhaka Collegiate School

In Satyajit Ray's Popular Detective Series Feluda, Mentions Pradosh Chandra Mitter aka Feluda's Father late Jaykrishna Mitter was a mathematics teacher of Dhaka Collegiate School.

Dhenki

In the movie Ashani Sanket by Satyajit Ray the actresses were seen to operate dhenki for a short period of time.

Drama film

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1954), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (1957), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).

Goutam Ghose

Has made a number of prominent documentaries including Meeting A Milestone (on Ustad Bismillah Khan), Beyond the Himalayas, Land of Sand Dunes, Ray (On Satyajit Ray), Impermanence (On HH Dalai Lama) Made numerous AD films, corporate and other Short Films.

Hatyapuri

Hatyapuri 1979) a crime novel by Satyajit Ray gets its title from a location (Puri) on the shores of the Bay of Bengal which is a popular tourist attraction in East India.

Hirak Rajar Deshe

Satyajit Ray won 2 awards, one for the Best Music Direction and other for Best Lyrics Award for the song "Aha Ki Anondo Akashe Batashe".

Jaisalmer Fort

The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote the Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress), a detective novel, based on the fort and he later filmed it here.

Kali Banerjee

Most known for his work with film directors like Satyajit Ray's Parash Pathar (1958) and Ritwik Ghatak's Nagarik (1952) and Ajantrik (1958).

He acted in Satyajit Ray's Aparajito (1956), Parash Pathar (1958), Teen Kanya (1961), but it was his association with Ritwik Ghatak, with whom he worked in Nagarik (1952), Ajantrik (1958) that the cinephiles mostly enjoy and want to commemorate.

Mama Bhagne

The rock formation is a thematic motif of the movie Abhijan by Satyajit Ray, where the rocks are seen as symbols of human being carrying its sin accumulated over time.

Ninasam

Films that were staged included those by masters like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa.

Nitin Bose

Satyajit Ray was a nephew of Bose and worked under him in the movie Mashaal(1950), which was produced by Bombay Talkies.

Priyanath Bose

Very few written records remain of Dr. Bose, but he was mentioned in Satyajit Ray's novel Chhinnamastar Abhishap (Trans: The Curse of the Goddess), featuring the famous fictional detective, Feluda.

The 400 Blows

Filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, Jean Cocteau, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Lester and Norman Jewison have cited The 400 Blows as one of their favorite movies.

Vinayak Chakravorty

He counts Charles Chaplin, Satyajit Ray, Woody Allen, Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Coen Brothers as directors whose works he loves to watch again and again.

Wahid Khan

Ustad Wahid Khan also appeared in legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s international award winning film Jalsaghar (The Music Room, 1958) where he performs on the surbahar in one of the scenes.


see also

Amar Goswami

He has translated more than 70 books of the prominent writers including Rabindranath Tagore, Taslima Nasrin, Tarashankar Bandhopadyay, Ramanath Ray, Bibhutibhusan Bandopadyay, Nazrul Islam, Satyajit Ray and many more

Chidananda Dasgupta

In 1959, the Federation of Film Societies of India was set up at the initiative of Das Gupta, Satyajit Ray, Mrs. Vijaya Mulay, Mrs. Ammu Swaminathan, Robert Hawkins, Diptendu Pramanick, Abul Hassan and A. Roychowdhury.

Distant Thunder

Ashani Sanket, Distant Thunder in English, a 1973 film by Indian director Satyajit Ray

Joi Baba Felunath

It is the second film of Feluda as well as the sequel of Sonar Kella directed by Satyajit Ray.

Literary creations of Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray wrote thirty-five Feluda stories, most of which were extremely popular, and made into films two of the Feluda stories – Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) (1974) and Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God) (1978).

Mehreen Jabbar

It won the FIPRESCI PRIZE from the International Federation of Film Critics and received Honourable Mention by the 13th Annual Satyajit Ray Awards at the London Film Festival, 2008 as well as the Audience award at the Fribourg International Film Festival.

Song of the Road

Pather Panchali, a 1955 Indian film directed by Satyajit Ray often known by this title in English

Subir Banerjee

Andrew Robinson, in his book Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, describes that at the beginning of the shooting of Pather Panchali in 1952, Subir Banerjee was a "decidedly unresponsive actor".

The Adversary

Pratidwandi, known internationally as The Adversary, a 1972 Indian Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray