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Satyajit Ray
Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Composer, Writer, Graphic Designer
Born: May 2, 1921, Kolkata (Calcutta),
India
Died: April 23, 1992, Calcutta, India
Satyajit Ray, standing 6'-4" tall, was a towering figure in the
world of cinema. He studied at the university in Calcutta and later
joined Shantiniketan, Rabindranath Tagore's university to study art.
He began his career as a commercial artist (1943-56). He founded Calcutta's
first film society in 1947 and made his first film, Pather Panchali
(1955) while working at an advertising agency. Pather Panchali was
an immediate success and won Grand Prix at the Cannes Festival. Pather
Panchali with his Aparajito (1956, The Unvanquished) and Apur Sansar
(1959, The World of Apu) are known as 'Apu Trilogy'.
His later films include Jalsaghar (1958, The Music Room), Kanchenjunga
(1962), Charulata (1964, The Lonely Wife), Ashanti Sanket (1973,
Distant Thunder), The Chess Players (1977), The Home and The World
(1984), Ganashatru (1989, Public Enemy), and Agantuk (1990, The
Stranger).
Ray also edited Sandesh, a children's magazine and wrote numerous
fiction and nonfiction works. In 1992 he received an honorary Academy
Award.
This short biography with a focus on cinema and his growth as
a filmmaker, is organised as under:
- Growing up, 1921-39
- At Shantiniketan, 1940-42
- Advertising & Graphic Design,
1943
- Calcutta Film Society, 1947
- Encounter With Jean Renoir, 1949
- The 'Bicycle Thieves'
Effect, 1950
- Making of Pather Panchali,
1950-55
- Triumph of Pather Panchali,
1955
- A Film a Year, 1956-1981
- Ray's Literary Career, 1961-1992
- The Final Offerings, 1989-1992
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