Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku stories remind us that he created a fictional scientist too

An excerpt from ‘The Tree with Golden Leaves’ from ‘The Best of Satyajit Ray: Volume 2.’ Translated from the Bengali by Indrani Majumdar.

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· Feb 08, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Subtle nuances of human relationships’: Why Satyajit Ray adapted ‘Postmaster’ and ‘Samapti’

The filmmaker based ‘Teen Kanya’ on stories by Rabindranath Tagore; the international version was released as ‘Two Daughters’ without ‘Monihara’.

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· Jun 28, 2022 · 10:15 am

Ray 100: Satyajit Ray on his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, whom he never saw

May 2, 2021 is Satyajit Ray’s 100th birth anniversary.

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· May 02, 2021 · 08:30 am

How Satyajit Ray found Indir Thakrun, the scene-stealer of ‘Pather Panchali’

The director coaxed the 80-year-old Chunibala Devi to emerge out of retirement – giving cinema one of its most delightful characters.

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· Feb 05, 2021 · 10:30 am

Flashback: On the sets of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’, all dressed up and nowhere to go

Edited excerpts from the legendary director’s memoir.

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· May 02, 2020 · 03:00 pm

‘Why are you fighting this war?’: Satyajit Ray’s famous anti-war song from ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’

‘For whom then are you fighting this war?’

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· Mar 04, 2019 · 10:30 am

You may have seen Satyajit Ray’s classic film ‘Nayak’, but you can’t have read the book (yet)

A novelisation of the 1966 Bengali film now brings the timeless story of the inner life of a film star to readers.

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· Apr 25, 2018 · 08:30 am

We may never watch it but a new book lets us read the script of Satyajit Ray’s unmade sci-fi film

In 1967, Satyajit Ray wrote the script for ‘Alien’, a film that was to be produced by Columbia Pictures in Hollywood. But the ill-fated movie was never made.

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· Apr 17, 2018 · 08:15 am