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Critics across both countries saw the act as the destruction of a symbolic site representing the legacy of the Ray family, widely celebrated for its contributions to Bengali art, literature, and cinema.
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India on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to reconsider its decision to demolish the ancestral home of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, offering assistance to help preserve the historic structure. The building, India emphasized, stands as a symbol of the Bengali cultural "renaissance" and holds significant heritage value.
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Sharmila Tagore on meeting Wes Anderson at the 78th Cannes Film Festival screening of her 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri; essaying some of Satyajit Ray’s strong women characters on screen; working with two Bengali stars Soumitra Chatterjee & Uttam Kumar; & balancing Bengali cinema with Bollywood.
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At the 17th Habitat Film Festival in Delhi, contemporaries, colleagues and friends filmmaker Aparna Sen and actress Shabana Azmi were in conversation to commemorate the golden jubilee of Azmi's acting journey in cinema.
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Veteran actors Sharmila Tagore and Simi Garewal attended the screening of the 1970 Bengali film, Aranyer Din Ratri on Monday evening. Video showed Satyajit Ray's film received a standing ovation.
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Simi Garewal and Sharmila Tagore made their presence felt on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival with their striking aura. For the occasion, Tagore opted for a timeless green traditional saree, while Garewal chose a white ensemble, looking as elegant as ever.
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Actresses Sharmila Tagore and Simi Garewal on Monday evening attended the screening of Satyajit Ray's iconic 1970 movie "Aranyer Din Ratri" at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.
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Satyajit Ray’s 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri's restored version will premiere at 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The film's actress Sharmila Tagore will be present at the event.
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Among the many inspirations in Shoojit life, he holds the legendary Satyajit Ray in the highest regard, considering him a guiding force in his artistic journey. Sircar believes that Ray's cinematic legacy has profoundly influenced his own work.
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Veteran director Satyajit Ray has inspired a countless of artists. On his birthday, let's take a look at a few foreign directors who have expressed their admiration for the late filmmaker's works.
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The 10-day film gala concluded with Germany's Endless Borders " winning the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the best film, while Deepak Kumar Mishra-directed show "Panchayat" season two bagged the best OTT series award, which was introduced for the first time.
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Serbian filmmaker Nina Ognjanović, whose Slamdance winner debut neo-Western feature 'Where the Road Leads' screens at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, talks about her film, Serbian cinema, and loving Satyajit Ray's films.
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‘Mujib: The Making of a Nation’, on Bangladesh's founding father, will release in multiple languages in India on October 27. The veteran filmmaker, the second Indian auteur after Ritwik Ghatak to make an India-Bangladesh government co-production, on his films and Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy.
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Debuting as a 15-year-old in Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar, Jaya Bhaduri would go on to study acting at FTII and become one of the most successful leading women in Bombay’s film industry in the 1970s.
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Satyajit Ray's whodunit stories also serves up travelogue and trivia while ensuring that all the bits and pieces fit together - Agatha Christie would have thoroughly approved.
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Mrinal Sen (1923-2023) directed 27 features, 14 shorts, and five documentaries in a 47-year-career, working with actors like Dimple Kapadia, Mithun Chakraborty, Mamata Shankar, Simi Garewal, Shabana Azmi and Dhritiman Chatterjee, among others.
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The Calcutta publisher that published the first edition of Jawaharlal Nehru’s The Discovery of India in 1946, is known for outstanding cover art and illustration, clean layouts, stylish typefaces.
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Satyajit Ray’s 1955 masterpiece Pather Panchali has been declared the best Indian film of all time by the Indian chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).
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Cannes 2022 screened the restored ‘Pratidwandi’. At home, Satyajit Ray's birth centenary celebrations are symptomatic of our obsession with cultural hero-worship, binaries and hyperboles.
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At the Cannes Film Festival's 75th anniversary, Satyajit Ray's rare movie "Pratidwandi" will also be presented in an exclusive screening at the movie gala.
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A non-Bengali Kolkata family that produced six of Satyajit Ray's films has restored them for cinema lovers around the world.
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A production house in Bangladesh named after the two dreadful musicians of 'Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne' is blazing a trail of international productions in the subcontinent.
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'Ray', starring Manoj Bajpayee, Kay Kay Menon, Ali Fazal and Harshvardhan Kapoor, shows us a much darker, scarier version of Satyajit Ray's short stories.
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In Satyajit Ray's centenary year, Netflix is releasing 'Ray' - an anthology film inspired by his works. Ahead of its release on June 25, 2021, people who knew the legendary filmmaker share some memories.
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Satyajit Ray was born in 1921. He received an honorary Oscar award in 1992 for Lifetime Achievement and died on April 23, 1992.
