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1984-1992
About forty years of filmmaking, with a film a year, was interrupted
by his fragile health in the mid-1980s. Ray's Ghare-Baire
(Home and the World, 1984) based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore,
was a return to his first screen adaptation. While shooting, he suffered
two heart attacks and his son, Sandip Ray, completed the project from
his detailed instructions.
1989-1992
Ill health kept Satyajit Ray away from active filmmaking for about
four years. In 1989, he resumed making films with Ibsen's An Enemy
of the People as the basis for his Ganashatru
(Enemy of the People, 1989). This was followed with Shakha Prashakha
(Branches of the Tree, 1990) and Agantuk
(The Stranger, 1991).
This series of three films were to be his last. Many film critics
and film historians found these films a marked departure from his
earlier work.
In 1992, He accepted a Lifetime Achievement Oscar from his sickbed
in Calcutta through a special live satellite-television event and
Bharat Ratna (the Jewel of India), the ultimate honour from India.
Satyajit Ray died on April 23, 1992.
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Satyajit Ray on the sets of Ganashatru, 1989 ©Denis Darzacq
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