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May 21, 2002 · Ray, Satyajit. b. May 2, 1921, Calcutta, India. d. April 23, 1992, Calcutta, India. Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta into an exceptionally talented family who were prominent in Bengali arts and letters. His father died when he was an infant and his mother and her younger brother’s family brought him up.
From time to time, letters or sketches by Ray keep surfacing, so the work of creating an inventory and digitizing the originals has to continue. However, the following is a broad list of the categories of his papers and personal belongings preserved by Satyajit Ray Society: 1) Film Scripts. 2) Posters. 3) Booklets. 4) Title Cards. 5) Lobby Cards.
Sep 5, 2013 · Audrey Hepburn presenting an Honorary Oscar® to Satyajit Ray, in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitar...
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Sep 3, 2013 · Across his three-and-a-half-decade career, the celebrated Bengali director Satyajit Ray authored over 30 films, revolutionising Indian cinema and introducing the nation on screen to audiences worldwide. For author Salman Rushdie, Ray was “the poet par excellence of the human-scale, life-sized comedy and tragedy of ordinary men and women”.
May 11, 2018 · RAY, SATYAJIT (1921–1992), renowned Indian filmmaker. In 1955, with the release of his first feature film, Pather Panchali , Satyajit Ray became an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. His reputation further surged with the completion of the Apu Trilogy (1959), considered by some critics to be the greatest cinematic suite ever made.
Feb 4, 2022 · Located in Kolkata and named after the legendary maestro Satyajit Ray, the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute was the second national centre of cinema education established in 1995 by The Government of India as an autonomous academic institution under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Institute was subsequently registered ...
Satyajit Ray (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈʃotːodʒit ˈrae̯] ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema.
