Satyajit Ray Archives

29th March 2016

Satyajit Ray’s directorial brainwave

The film Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) is a heart-warming tale of the father and son who search all through the city of Rome for the stolen bicycle which is the only means to ensure their livelihood. Ray started his career as a commercial artist and he got inspired into independent film making after meeting French film-maker Jean Renoir and viewing the Italian neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves. Vittorio De Sica’s famous movie Bicycle Thieves inspired Indian film maestro Satyajit Ray to become a director.

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19th March 2016

The ‘Taak Trio’ – The three bald actors

Taak is the Bengali word for bald. During the shooting of Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) by Satyajit Ray, three bald actors Santosh Dutta, Ajoy Banerjee and Kamu Mukherjee used to share rooms at hotels. They were referred to as the ‘Taak Trio’.

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8th March 2016

India’s first telefilm for the national network

Sadgati is a story written by Munshi Premchand. It is essentially based on the banes of the caste system. Satyajit Ray made it into a film in 1981, mainly for the TV audience. The main actors of the film were Om Puri, Smita Patil and Mohan Agashe.

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16th February 2016

Which famous Bengali painter was visually impaired?

Benode Behari Mukhopadhyay was an eminent Bengali painter and muralist. He taught in Vishva Bharati University in 1925. He was born with serious defects in his eyes. He was myopic in one eye and blind in the other. He became totally visually impaired when his myopic eye was operated upon in 1956. He continued to paint and do murals even after that. Satyajit Ray made a documentary The Inner Eye based on his life.

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11th February 2016

Soumitra Chattopadhyay and Satyajit Ray’s 14 films together

The films directed by Satyajit Ray in which Soumitra Chattopadhyay has acted are the following:

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