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Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag's 4th Lecture in the Ray@100 Special Series explores compositional inspirations/ semblances/ correlations of Ray’s frames vis-a-vis that of established artists...

There have been a few distinct and unique female characters in the cinema of Satyajit Ray. In the 3rd episode of Ray@100 Video Lecture Series, Silhouette editor Amitava Nag looks...

Ray’s extraordinary Calcutta films have not attracted a fraction of the analysis devoted to his early work. Western critics have tended, with the exception of Andrew Robinson and one or two others, to...

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.