Satyajit Ray Biography

Satyajit Ray ( সত্যজিৎ রায় ) (May 2, 1921 - April 23, 1992) was a Bengali movie chief whose movies are maybe the best demonstration of Bengali and Indian film. He is for the most part known for his Apu set of three (the movies Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and The World of Apu.), yet has an enormous accumulation of works that are accliaimed among the world film industry, most prominently by any semblance of Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorcese and Steven Spielberg. He has been called one of the four biggest executive/makers of film on the planet, and Kurosawa broadly said of Ray:

"… Not to have seen the film of Ray means existing on the planet without seeing the sun or the moon."

His Life

Naturally introduced to a moderately rich family in Calcutta, Ray was accomplished and spent numerous years as a design craftsman in a distributing house; enlivened by the novel Pather Panchali, he chose to make it into a film and shot it on area utilizing companions as entertainers, setting up the financing himself. Halfway through recording he came up short on reserves; the Bengal government advanced him the rest, enabling him to complete the film. The film was effective both imaginatively and economically, winning notification at the 1956 Cannes film celebration and giving a shelter to the Indian film industry.

Beam's work will in general be both realistic and curbed; his initial work is humane and contacting; his later work, while progressively political, is likewise now and again pessimistic, yet at the same time imbued with his run of the mill humor.

In 1962, Ray coordinated Kanchenjungha, his first unique screenplay and shading film.

Satyajit Ray won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1985 for lifetime commitment to Indian film. He got the Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. He was likewise granted the Bharat Ratna in 1992.

In 1967, Ray composed a content for a motion picture entitled "The Alien", yet neglected to get American financing to deliver it. 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial bore numerous likenesses to Ray's work, and Ray accepted that Spielberg's film "would not have been conceivable without my content of The Alien being accessible all through America in mimeographed duplicates." Spielberg denied this.

Satyajit Ray was additionally a productive author in Bengali. Seemingly his most well known composed works were the adventures of Feluda, a bengali investigator.