Satyajit Ray

Famous quotes by Satyajit Ray:

"I learnt framing by watching him work on the camera. He would always encourage me and now I have a collection of 90,000 photos of Ray."

"Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting."

"There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone."

"Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens."

"I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary."

"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."

"Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years."

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

"I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it."

"My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population."

"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."

"I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation."

"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical."

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

"What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure."

"Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule."

"You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan."

"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."

"At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music."

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Seasoned musicians and prodigies enthral audience at music conference

The News International 14 Apr 2025

The screening of Satyajit Ray’s Jalsaghar (The Music Room) on Saturday was one of the interesting offerings of the conference ... Like other Ray’s films, Jalsaghar is in Bengali, so the audience had to rely on subtitles to understand the dialogues ... .

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Indian film co-written by a Bengali at Cannes’ ‘Un Certain Regard’

The Times of India 12 Apr 2025

Roy takes pride in his Bengali roots, underlining that he grew up idolising films by Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen – legends whose films have been Cannes favourites.

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Hindi film whose story is co-written by a Bengali scriptwriter to premiere at Cannes

The Times of India 12 Apr 2025

Roy takes pride in his Bengali roots, underlining that he grew up idolising films by Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen – legends whose films have been Cannes favourites ... 'Ray was an evolved and fantastic writer with remarkable clarity of thought.

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After regime change, Dhaka Poila Baisakh event changes name

The Times of India 11 Apr 2025

Saikat Sekhareswar Ray, faculty of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), who attended the ceremony in 2012, indicated that the change is 'secondary' to the spirit in which it is received and its interpretation by people.

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Review: The Green Book; An Observer’s Notebook by Amitava Kumar

Hindustan Times 11 Apr 2025

Amitava Kumar’s The Green Book ... A Writer’s Journal and The Yellow Book. A Traveller’s Diary ... We meet Intizar Husain, Arati K Rao, Dushyant Kumar, Gieve Patel, Arundhati Roy, Satyajit Ray, Ravish Kumar and Nirmal Verma, among others, in these pages ... 33).

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Plagiarism row: ‘Registered Laapataa Ladies script well before Burqa City was made’

The Times of India 07 Apr 2025

Kolkata. Biplab Goswami, an alumnus of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) and scriptwriter of Kiran Rao's ‘Laapataa Ladies' (LL), was recently embroiled in a plagiarism controversy ... The allegations are against two scenes.

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Khakee: The Bengal Chapter works despite a tad lengthy narration

News India Times 05 Apr 2025

Debatma Mandal & Tushar Kanti Ray Written by ... Sourav Ganguly becomes Khakee Superfan! Soumitra Chatterjee, celebrated Indian actor and ‘one-man stock company’ for Satyajit Ray, dies at 85 Khakee.

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Did you know Manoj Kumar donated his entire National Award money for 1965 film Shaheed ...

Hindustan Times 04 Apr 2025

(Also Read ... Manoj Kumar turned scriptwriter for Shaheed ... In the same interview, he had also spoken about meeting Satyajit Ray and talking about Upkar with him. “At an international film festival in Delhi, I came across Manikda (Satyajit Ray) ... See Less.

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The Kolkata debut of Jahan-e-Khusrau is homecoming for me, says Muzaffar Ali

The Times of India 04 Apr 2025

It opened my eyes to cinema, as I watched Satyajit Ray working on a film while we were both in (the advertising agency) Clarion — he as an art director and me as an assistant account executive ... .

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Manoj Kumar, the man who made India his muse passes away at 87

The Times of India 04 Apr 2025

A bench outside Filmistan ... The verdict was brutal ... He continued to admire Satyajit Ray, and fondly remembered a playful moment at the 1967 International Film Festival in Delhi, where he joked that Charulata too had its melodramatic bits.

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Manoj Kumar: The Legend passes on

News India Times 04 Apr 2025

Manoj Kumar in his cult debut directorial, Upkar. Photo. Trailer Video Grab. Hari Krishen Goswami, a.k.a ... But Mr ... Photo ... Shantaram, Satyajit Ray and Guru Dutt, Manoj admitted to the last-mentioned filmmaker’s influence on his song-conception and filming ... .

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Kolkata Kathokata: A timeless journey through the city’s heritage

The Times of India 02 Apr 2025

Kolkata Kathokata is an annual exhibition to showcase Kolkata’s rich history, culture, and heritage ... A special tribute to legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray will also be featured, with booklets, lobby cards, and memorabilia from his works. .

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Interview | Rituparna Sengupta on working with Sharmila Tagore in Puratawn: ‘She loves delving into ...

Hindustan Times 01 Apr 2025

Sharmila Tagore has starred in some of the most acclaimed Bengali films in her decades-long career. Her collaboration with master filmmaker Satyajit Ray has produced films such as Devi, Nayak, Apur Sansar and Aranyer Din Ratri ... (Also read ... Interview).

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Nitish Roy is now a legend; his bond with Benegal going strong

The Siasat Daily 30 Mar 2025

By Uma Magal. For film viewers, art direction is a much-forgotten part of filmmaking ... In Amir Khan’s Fanaa, for instance, he says ... Awards galore ... His early influences were the realistic art direction in Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen films ... As he recalls ... .

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March 30 – PM in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, Shah in Bihar, IPL: DC vs SRK and RR vs CSK

The Times of India 29 Mar 2025

Why Trump's tariffs ignore global realitiesHow a 'Nalanda of sports' is being created in the heart of Biharmedium nocaption119716583Anniversaries• World Bipolar Day• Birth anniversary of actress ...

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Latest News for: Satyajit Ray

Seasoned musicians and prodigies enthral audience at music conference

Indian film co-written by a Bengali at Cannes’ ‘Un Certain Regard’

Hindi film whose story is co-written by a Bengali scriptwriter to premiere at Cannes

After regime change, Dhaka Poila Baisakh event changes name

Review: The Green Book; An Observer’s Notebook by Amitava Kumar

Plagiarism row: ‘Registered Laapataa Ladies script well before Burqa City was made’

Khakee: The Bengal Chapter works despite a tad lengthy narration

Did you know Manoj Kumar donated his entire National Award money for 1965 film Shaheed ...

The Kolkata debut of Jahan-e-Khusrau is homecoming for me, says Muzaffar Ali

Manoj Kumar, the man who made India his muse passes away at 87

Manoj Kumar: The Legend passes on

Kolkata Kathokata: A timeless journey through the city’s heritage

Interview | Rituparna Sengupta on working with Sharmila Tagore in Puratawn: ‘She loves delving into ...

Nitish Roy is now a legend; his bond with Benegal going strong

March 30 – PM in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, Shah in Bihar, IPL: DC vs SRK and RR vs CSK

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