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Ray@100

meeting satyajit ray (RAY AT 100)
Meeting Ray: The Nawab of Sight and Sound

“Today, when everyone is remembering the towering personality who was born 100 years ago, I am tempted to re-live the fifteen minutes he devoted in talking to me – and what I gleaned from that interaction…”

Ratnottama Sengupta relives her memorable 15-minute interview and learning from the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray.

Meeting Ray: The Nawab of Sight and Sound
Meeting Ray: The Nawab of Sight and Sound
"Today, when everyone is remembering the...
My Journey with Feluda
My Journey with Feluda
From Sonar Kella (1974) to...
Dancing with Ray... An Unparalleled Celluloid Experience
Dancing with Ray… An Unparalleled Celluloid Experience
Challenging the conventional songs...
Hirak Rajar Deshe: The Diamond King Had a Great Fall
Hirak Rajar Deshe: The Diamond King Had a Great Fall
Fifteen year old Anshula loves the...
Satyajit Ray’s Rendezvous with Documentaries
Satyajit Ray’s Rendezvous with Documentaries
Satyajit Ray absorbed...
Woman at the Window
Woman at the Window
The Material Universe of Rabindranath...
Ray@100 Lecture 5: Circularity in Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri
Ray@100 Lecture 5: Circularity in Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri
Silhouette...
Soumitra Chatterjee on Acting in Satyajit Ray's Films - Exclusive Video Interview (Part 2)
Soumitra Chatterjee on Acting in Satyajit Ray’s Films – Exclusive Video Interview (Part 2)
Soumitra...
Ray@100 Lecture 4: The Window in Satyajit Ray’s Cinema
Ray@100 Lecture 4: The Window in Satyajit Ray’s Cinema
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Soumitra Chatterjee on Acting in Satyajit Ray's Films - Exclusive Video Interview (Part 1)
Soumitra Chatterjee on Acting in Satyajit Ray’s Films – Exclusive Video Interview (Part 1)
Soumitra...
Ray’s Scientiphilia
Ray’s Scientiphilia
Satyajit Ray never made a film on any scientific...
Ray@100 Lecture 3: The Desiring Woman in Satyajit Ray's Cinema
Ray@100 Lecture 3: The Desiring Woman in Satyajit Ray’s Cinema
There...
‘A Film by…?’ An Extended Idea of Auteurship in Vivre Sa Vie and Charulata
‘A Film by…?’ An Extended Idea of Auteurship in Vivre Sa Vie and Charulata
The...
Apu and Durga run through the kash to see the steam train
First Impressions: Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali
15 year old...
Ray@100 Lecture 2: Glimpses of the City in Satyajit Ray's Cinema
Ray@100 Lecture 2: Glimpses of the City in Satyajit Ray’s Cinema
In...
Use of Magic and Supernaturalism in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne and Hirak Rajar Deshe
Use of Magic and Supernaturalism in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne and Hirak Rajar Deshe
Goopy...
Tapen Chatterjee as Goopy Gyne (R) and Rabi Ghosh as Bagha Byne
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne – The Story of the Kind Bravehearts
Anshula's...
Mahapurush – A Film I Loved to Watch
Mahapurush – A Film I Loved to Watch
11-year old Akash Nag, has...
Posters of Devi and Mahanagar
Telling the Stories Beyond the Silver Posters of Satyajit Ray
Posters...
Ray@100 Lecture 1: Acting in Satyajit Ray's Cinema
Ray@100 Lecture 1: Acting in Satyajit Ray’s Cinema
In the first...
Satyajit Ray and Ravi Shankar during one of the many sessions composing the music of Ray’s The Apu Trilogy.
Ray’s Ravi Shankar – A Blueprint for Posterity
An Unfilmed Visual...
The cover of The Pather Panchali Sketchbook, Harper Collins India, 2016
The Pather Panchali Sketchbook – An Intricately Delicate Entry into a Master’s Creative Mind
This was no traditional screenplay....
The Calcutta Film Society in early 2016 (Pic Courtesy: Internet)
For the Love of Cinema – the Story Behind the Calcutta Film Society
The Calcutta Film Society was registered...
60 Years of Pather Panchali and Some Questions on Indian Cinema
60 Years of Pather Panchali and Some Questions on Indian Cinema
The Society for the Preservation...
Agantuk is a meditation on the present world and Manikda’s view on civilization.
My Journey to India – in the Cave of My Heart
As the years passed, I began to...
whether it is Indranath in Kanchanjanga or Shyamlendu in Seemabaddha or Natabar Mitter in Jana-Aranya, their very freedom to expound their beliefs makes them reveal their moral worthlessness to the viewer.
‘Illuminating Ray’ A Critique on Gaston Roberge’s Satyajit Ray: Essays (1970-2005)
Ray’s extraordinary Calcutta...
Charulata: The Lonely Wife
Performativity and Politics: Ray and Ghatak
Ray, in his characteristic...
Aranyer Din Ratri: Holding a Mirror to the 21st Century Generation
Aranyer Din Ratri: Holding a Mirror to the 21st Century Generation
Aranyer...
Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella, the first of the two films he made on the Feluda series
Why Feluda Works
When we talk of re-birth of Feluda on screen with...
The music-loving, clairvoyant Prashanta has a premonition of the disaster that is going to strike his father.
Satyajit Ray’s Sakha Prosakha: A Critic of Contemporary Ethics
Ray’s preoccupation...
The Colour of Aesthetics
The Colour of Aesthetics
In the works of Ray himself we will...


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