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Tag: Satyajit Ray

Teen Kanya, 1961

December 22, 2017 (December 29, 2017) acquarello

Composed of three stories based on Rabindranath Tagore’s short fiction that span a range of ages, each shot in a different narrative genre – a social realist drama, a ghost story, and a romantic comedy – Satyajit Ray’s Teen Kanya (Three Daughters) is a lucid panorama on the lives of society’s referential daughters and their […]

Directors, National CinemaIndian Cinema, Satyajit Ray

Devi, 1960

December 22, 2017 (December 29, 2017) acquarello

Devi opens with a static shot of an undecorated alabaster statue in the image of Kali, the goddess of creation and destruction, as the Hindu deity is excessively ornamented for a religious festival. On the eve of the festival, Umaprasad (“Uma”) (Soumitra Chatterjee) brings his shy and beautiful wife, Doyamoyee (“Doya”) (Sharmila Tagore) and nephew, […]

Directors, National CinemaIndian Cinema, Satyajit Ray

Apur Sansar, 1959

December 22, 2017 (December 29, 2017) acquarello

Times are hard in the city of Calcutta. Apu’s (Soumitra Chatterjee) college funds have run dry, and he is forced to suspend his university education. After receiving a letter of introduction from a supportive professor, Apu exits the faculty office only to walk into the chaos of a student protest. It is a harbinger of […]

Directors, National CinemaIndian Cinema, Satyajit Ray

Jalsaghar, 1958

December 22, 2017 (December 29, 2017) acquarello

Jalsaghar opens to the shot of a large, ornate, candlelit chandelier, precariously swaying from the momentum of its cumbersome weight. It is a vestige of the fading grandeur of Huzur Biswambhar Roy’s (Chhabi Biswas) cherished jalsaghar – the elegant entertainment room where guests listen to the performance of traditional musicians amid eroded columns and peeling […]

Directors, National CinemaIndian Cinema, Satyajit Ray

Aparajito, 1956

December 22, 2017 (December 29, 2017) acquarello

The people make their daily pilgrimage to the Ganges River: bathing in its holy waters, filling their ceremonial vessels, attending a reading of the scriptures by the entrance steps. The Ray family has left their ancestral home (in Pather Panchali) and has settled into a ground floor apartment in the city of Banaras. Hari (Kanu […]

Directors, National CinemaIndian Cinema, Satyajit Ray

Pather Panchali, 1955

December 22, 2017 (December 29, 2017) acquarello

A young girl named Durga (Runki Banerjee) ventures into the neighbor’s orchard that was once owned by her family, and picks some guavas for her great aunt, Indir (Chunibala Devi). The neighbors detect the incident, and complain loudly of Durga’s undisciplined behavior for her mother, Sarbajaya (Karuna Banerjee) to overhear. Sarbajaya, in turn, scolds Indir […]

Directors, National CinemaIndian Cinema, Satyajit Ray

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