Tag Archives: Satyajit Ray

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...

Parambrata Chatterjee’s biopic of Soumitra Chatterjee, Abhijan, aspires to be an account of the great actor. It tries to portray a collage of events through flashbacks interspersed...

Amitava Nag’s upcoming The Cinema of Tapan Sinha, An Introduction book provides a succinct introduction to the cinema of Tapan Sinha and the significant place he holds in Bengali...

"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...

From Sonar Kella (1974) to Chhinomostar Obhishap (2020), Feluda on screen has come a long way. Anshula revisits her favourite Feluda films, the iconic detective created by Satyajit Ray. Ray himself...

Challenging the conventional songs and dances in Indian cinema, Satyajit Ray used 'classical singing and dancing as integral focal points of realistic sequences' except when he created the unique allegorical psychedelic...

Fifteen year old Anshula loves the Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne films by Satyajit Ray. In a review of Hirak Rajar Deshe, she explores the film's storyline, songs and dialogues in verses.