Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, writer, composer, visual artist and author who is known for his outstanding contribution to Indian and World Cinema. Born to a wealthy family in Calcutta, Ray’s father and grandfather were both Bengali writers of considerable repute. Ray’s family were the adherents of Brahmo Samaj ( a reformed Hindu sect founded by the thinker Raja Ram Mohan Roy) whose progressive attitudes towards society and culture was to be seen later in his films. He went to Rabindranath Tagore’s Vishwa Bharati University which brought him close to rural Bengal. There, he also came to appreciate the nuances and aesthetics of various Eastern art forms.
His first movie Pather Panchali garnered both critical and commercial acclaim. The movie was influential in launching Indian cinema to the world , as a result of which it won the 1950 Cannes Film Festival award. Pather Panchali was to be the first film among the “Appu Trilogy“. His important works include Charulata, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Agantuk,Jalsaghar and Aparajito among others.
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Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, writer, composer, visual artist and author who is known for his outstanding contribution to Indian and World Cinema. Born to a wealthy family in Calcutta, Ray’s father and grandfather were both Bengali writers of considerable repute. Ray’s family were the adherents of Brahmo Samaj ( a reformed Hindu sect founded by the thinker Raja Ram Mohan Roy) whose progressive attitudes towards society and culture was to be seen later in his films. He went to Rabindranath Tagore’s Vishwa Bharati University which brought him close to rural Bengal. There, he also came to appreciate the nuances and aesthetics of various Eastern art forms.
His first movie Pather Panchali garnered both critical and commercial acclaim. The movie was influential in launching Indian cinema to the world , as a result of which it won the 1950 Cannes Film Festival award. Pather Panchali was to be the first film among the “Appu Trilogy“. His important works include Charulata, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Agantuk,Jalsaghar and Aparajito among others.