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In 1942 Ray returned to Calcutta and took a job the following year with a British advertising agency as a graphic designer and illustrator. Bihari taught him Chinese and Japanese drawing and calligraphy techniques. He watched hundreds of films, mainly American, in his youth and wrote to Hollywood stars and directors, including Billy Wilder.Īfter graduating from the University of Calcutta where he majored in physics and economics, Ray attended Santiniketan University in Kala Bhavan, studying fine art and graphic design under renowned Bengali artists Binode Bihari and Nandala Bose. Ray developed an early interest in western classical music and the cinema. Ray’s mother was an accomplished singer and other relatives were scientists, photographers, artists and physicians. His father and grandfather, who were closely associated with India’s social reformist Brahmo Samaj movement and its leading poet and dramatist Rabindranath Tagore, were printers and publishers who also wrote and illustrated children’s stories and poetry. Ray was born in Calcutta 1921 to a family of distinguished intellectuals and grew up surrounded by art, literature and music.

Such was the power of Ray’s work that Japanese master director Akira Kurosawa remarked: “Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.” The Apu Trilogy, which made Satyajit Ray India’s first internationally recognised director, helped to redefine cinema for the most serious Indian filmmakers at this time and influenced and encouraged many others internationally.

One of the more memorable screenings at the 2001 Sydney Film Festival was Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy- Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apu Sansar (1959)-which traces the life of a Bengali family and their son Apu, as he moves from childhood in a rural village, through his youth in Benares where the family later moves, to manhood and marriage in Calcutta.

Below is a review of Ray’s masterwork by Richard Phillips and originally published on the World Socialist Web Site on August 2, 2001.

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The trilogy, which includes new subtitles and a digitally remastered version of Ravi Shankar’s original soundtrack, is currently screening in selected North American cinemas (click here for a full list of screening times and venues) with forthcoming international screenings and releases on DVD and Blu-ray.Ī short trailer of the trilogy is available here. The original negatives of the trilogy were severely damaged by fire in a British film lab in 1993, almost a year after Ray’s death. After more than a year of painstaking work, Indian director Satyajit Ray’s cinematic milestone, The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar ), has been fully restored in a new 4K reconstruction by Janus Films.

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