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    Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, writer, and illustrator who is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. He directed 36 films in various genres including features, documentaries, and shorts. Ray also wrote several novels and short stories for children and teenagers featuring popular characters like Feluda and Professor Shonku. Ray's career began in commercial art but he took up independent filmmaking after being inspired by Italian neorealist films. His debut film Pather Panchali won numerous international prizes and established his reputation. Over his lifetime, Ray received wide acclaim and many major awards, including India's highest civilian honor the Bharat Ratna.

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    Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, writer, and illustrator who is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. He directed 36 films in various genres including features, documentaries, and shorts. Ray also wrote several novels and short stories for children and teenagers featuring popular characters like Feluda and Professor Shonku. Ray's career began in commercial art but he took up independent filmmaking after being inspired by Italian neorealist films. His debut film Pather Panchali won numerous international prizes and established his reputation. Over his lifetime, Ray received wide acclaim and many major awards, including India's highest civilian honor the Bharat Ratna.

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    Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, writer, and illustrator who is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. He directed 36 films in various genres including features, documentaries, and shorts. Ray also wrote several novels and short stories for children and teenagers featuring popular characters like Feluda and Professor Shonku. Ray's career began in commercial art but he took up independent filmmaking after being inspired by Italian neorealist films. His debut film Pather Panchali won numerous international prizes and established his reputation. Over his lifetime, Ray received wide acclaim and many major awards, including India's highest civilian honor the Bharat Ratna.

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    Satyajit Ray (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈʃɔtːodʒit ˈrai̯ ] ( listen); 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was

    an Indian film director, writer, and illustrator. He was one of the greatest filmmakers of the
    20th century,[2][3][4] celebrated for works such as The Apu Trilogy (1955–59), The Music
    Room (1958), The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964). He was one of the of the leading
    figures of Parallel cinema. Ray was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family which was
    prominent in the field 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, meant primarily for young children and
    teenagers. 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 Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional
    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, its highest
    civilian award, in 1992. Ray had received many noticeable awards and gained a prestigious
    position over his life time.

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