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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959) form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna in 1992.


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Born:
May 2, 1921 In Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Movie/TV Credits:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie Rabindranath Tagore 1961-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali 2021-03-09
Known For
Poster of Satyajit Ray
Poster of Creative Artists of India: Satyajit Ray
Poster of The Inner Eye
Poster of Sikkim
Filmography
Movie Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali Self (archive footage) 2021-03-09
Movie Feluda: 50 Years of Ray's Detective Self (archival footage) 2019-06-07
Movie Satyajit Ray Self 1985-10-01
Movie Creative Artists of India: Satyajit Ray Self 1974-01-01
Movie The Inner Eye Narrator (voice) 1972-01-01
Movie Sikkim Narrator (voice) 1971-04-01
Movie The Creative Person: Satyajit Ray Self 1967-01-01
Movie Rabindranath Tagore Narrator (voice) 1961-01-01