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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

Director · Born 1921-05-02 · Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

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Biography

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (195…

Directed

  1. Pather Panchali (1955) — Director
  2. Aparajito (1956) — Director
  3. The World of Apu (1959) — Director
  4. The Music Room (1958) — Director
  5. Charulata (1964) — Director
  6. The Big City (1963) — Director
  7. The Hero (1966) — Director
  8. The Stranger (1991) — Director
  9. Devi (1960) — Director
  10. The Chess Players (1977) — Director
  11. The Coward (1965) — Director
  12. Two (1965) — Director
  13. The Elephant God (1979) — Director
  14. The Adversary (1970) — Director
  15. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) — Director
  16. Distant Thunder (1973) — Director
  17. The Golden Fortress (1974) — Director
  18. The Kingdom of Diamonds (1980) — Director
  19. The Holy Man (1965) — Director
  20. The Home and the World (1985) — Director
  21. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) — Director
  22. An Enemy of the People (1990) — Director
  23. The Middleman (1976) — Director
  24. Three Daughters (1961) — Director
  25. Company Limited (1971) — Director
  26. The Expedition (1962) — Director
  27. Kanchenjungha (1962) — Director
  28. The Branches of the Tree (1990) — Director
  29. The Philosopher's Stone (1958) — Director
  30. The Zoo (1967) — Director
  31. Rabindranath Tagore (1961) — Director
  32. Sadgati (1981) — Director
  33. The Inner Eye (1972) — Director
  34. Pikoo (1981) — Director
  35. Sukumar Ray (1987) — Director
  36. Sikkim (1971) — Director
  37. Bala (1976) — Director
  38. The Lost Jewels (1961) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Rabindranath Tagore (1961) — Narrator (voice)
  2. The Inner Eye (1972) — Narrator (voice)
  3. Satyajit Ray (1985) — Self
  4. Sikkim (1971) — Narrator (voice)
  5. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
  6. Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  7. Ray: Life and Work of Satyajit Ray (1999) — Self (archive footage)
  8. Creative Artists of India: Satyajit Ray (1974) — Self
  9. The Music of Satyajit Ray (1984) — Self
  10. The Tree (1998) — Self (archive footage)
  11. The Creative Person: Satyajit Ray (1967) — Self
  12. Feluda: 50 Years of Ray's Detective (2019) — Self (archival footage)
  13. Indian Talkie (1981) — Self