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Satyajit Ray ( May 2 1921 - April 23 1992) was a Bengali film director whose films are perhaps the greatest testament to Bengali and Indian cinema. He is mostly known for his Apu trilogy (the films Pather Panchali, Aparajito , and The World of Apu .), but has a large collection of works that are accliaimed among the world film industry, most notably by the likes of Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorcese and Steven Spielberg. He has been called one of the four greatest director/producers of cinema in the world, and Kurosawa famously said of Ray:
Born into a relatively wealthy family in Calcutta, Ray was well-educated and spent many years as a layout artist in a publishing house; inspired by the novel Pather Panchali, he decided to make it into a film and shot it on location using friends as actors, putting up the funding himself. Partway through filming he ran out of funds; the Bengal government loaned him the rest, allowing him to finish the film. The film was successful both artistically and commercially, winning notice at the 1956 Cannes film festival and providing a boon to the Indian film industry.
Ray's work tends to be both realistic and subdued; his early work is compassionate and touching; his later work, while more political, is also at times cynical, but still infused with his typical humor.
In 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e, Ray directed KanchenjunghaKanchenjungha is a 1962 film by Indian film director Satyajit Ray, his first original screenplay and colour film. The film is about a group of rich Bengalis on vacation near Kanchenjunga. Cast Karuna Bannerjee as Labanya Roy Chaudhuri Chhabi Biswas as Ind, his first original screenplay and colour film.
Satyajit Ray won the Dadasaheb Phalke AwardThe Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. It was instituted in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, considered the father of Indian cinema. The award for a parti in 1985 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. He received the Academy's Lifetime Achievement AwardThe Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly to celebrate achievements that are not covered by the competitive. In the early years it was often used to reward accomplishments that did not fit in existing categories. This subsequently led to several new in 1992. He was also awarded the Bharat RatnaBharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award. Devanagari script, on a peepul leaf The Bharat Ratna is India's supreme decoration and honor, awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific ach in 1992.
In 1967, Ray wrote a script for a movie entitled "The Alien", but failed to get American funding to produce it. 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrialthe Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film that tells the story of the young boy Elliott who befriends an alien being trapped on Earth and trying to find his way home. It stars Henry Thomas (Elliott), Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton, Dee Wall bore many similarities to Ray's work, and Ray believed that Spielberg's movie "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies." Spielberg denied this.
Satyajit Ray was also a prolific writer in Bengali. Arguably his most famous written works were the exploits of Feluda, a Bengali detective.
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