Tag Archives: Satyajit Ray and Tagore

In a brief critique, Silhouette editor Amitava Nag looks at how Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak with their different socio-psychological conditionings deal with the 'father' figure in...

Satyajit Ray absorbed the local reality when he shot on location and much like a documentary filmmaker, allowed that reality to pour into his camera. Documentary filmmaker Subha Das Mollick explores...

Filmmakers over the decades have been deeply inspired by Munshi Premchand's works. Shoma A Chatterji pays tribute to the greatest Hindi author on his birth anniversary, remembering the path-breaking films made on his...

As the years passed, I began to feel that the main character in several of the following movies of Satyajit Ray could be seen as a figure of Apu proceeding on his journey of discovery in the world and establishing...

The quest to create strong, powerful and most importantly - relevant visual syntax for the written word is alive in every serious director working in the medium today.