Satyajit Ray
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 music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of film-making, Ray is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964). Ray was born in Calcutta to nonsense rhyme author Sukumar Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film-making 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. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955) won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Docume...
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The Stranger
The Branches of the Tree
An Enemy of the People
The Home and the World
Sikkim
The Kingdom of Diamonds
The Elephant God
The Chess Players
The Middleman
The Golden Fortress
Distant Thunder
Seemabaddha
The Adversary
Days and Nights in the Forest
The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha
The Zoo
The Hero
Two
The Coward
The Holy Man
Charulata
The Big City
The Expedition
Kanchenjungha
Three Daughters
Rabindranath Tagore
Devi
The World of Apu
The Music Room
The Philosopher's Stone
Aparajito
Pather Panchali
