Satyajit Ray, whose evocative films of life in dirt-poor Bengal drew small audiences at home but critical acclaim worldwide, died Thursday (April 23, 1992). He was 70. Mr. Ray, who last month was ...

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - The Oscars academy has restored a rare print of a controversial film by India's famed director Satyajit Ray that was banned by Indian censors for glorifying monarchy in a ...

After showing to sell-out audiences in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles during a major retrospective of Satyajit Ray’s work, The Expedition (Abhijaan, 1962), a newly restored film by the ...

Satyajit Ray’s name may not sound familiar, but in film circles, the Indian director’s name can be found alongside those of Francois Truffaut and Akira Kurosawa. “It’s a cliched phrase that film is a ...

For Sharmila Tagore, Satyajit Ray’s cinema is all about lasting power. Something known, acknowledged and celebrated, time and again, and underscored once more at the recent screening of the restored ...

Maybe that’s why the experience of watching Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy — movies adapted from two works by Indian novelist Bibhutibhushan Banerjee and set in a country many of us will never even visit ...

Sundeep Bhutoria is a culturist, social activist and wildlife enthusiast based in Kolkata, India. He is associated with various non-governmental organizations and is at the forefront of several social ...

In Uttam Kumar: A Life in Cinema (2021), author Sayandeb Chowdhury begins with an anecdote about Bengali cinema’s two foremost immortals: Satyajit Ray and Uttam Kumar. The year was 1966. Ray’s film, ...

A six-year restoration journey spearheaded by filmmaker Wes Anderson has culminated in Satyajit Ray‘s 1970 masterpiece “Aranyer Din Ratri” (“Days and Nights in the Forest”) securing a slot at Cannes ...

If you developed a taste for Bengali cinema in the first flush after independence, there were three important film-makers you would argue over at your favourite adda, the literal or metaphoric space ...