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The piano is essentially a Western musical instrument. Yet, since the 19th century, the affluent strata of Calcutta slowly got introduced to it, thanks to the British rulers. The piano soon became an integral part of Calcutta's...

Ray, in his characteristic swagger, put it down to the puerile nature of his native Bengali audience and the ‘backward, stupid and trashy’ quality of contemporaneous work in the Bengali film industry.