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Name: Satyajit Ray
Birth Date: May 21, 1921
Death Date: April 23, 1992
Place of Birth: Bengal, India
Place of Death: West Bengal, India
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Occupations: film director

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Biography of Satyajit Ray
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The Indian film director Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was noted for his refined and subtly moving studies of native family life. His creations possess a humanistic warmth, crystalline purity, and mythic evocativeness which enable them to transcend the...


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Ray, Satyajit Summary
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(1921–1992), Indian filmmaker. One of the most prominent figures in the history of cultural production in India, Satyajit Ray is best known in international circles for his films. A cursory glance at his oeuvre, however, shows that he was not...
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Satyajit Ray Information
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Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিত রায় or সত্যজিৎ রায় Shottojit Rae (help·info)) (May 2 1921–April 23 1992) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was one of the most highly regarded filmmakers of the...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Indian Summer: The Films of Satyajit Ray
09/01/1995: 813 words, approx. 3 pages
INDIAN DIRECTOR Satyajit Ray stretched the boundaries of world cinema eastward with his extraordinary "Apu trilogy" in the late 1950s. The Key Theatre affords a valuable opportunity to appreciate the three films, as well as six other Ray works, between Friday and Nov 2....
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Metro : Media & Education Magazine
The Cinema Of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition And Modernity
04/01/2001: 1,899 words, approx. 6 pages
DARIUS COOPER THE CINEMA OF SATYAJIT RAY: BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY Reading from an Indian Perspective With an aim to 'situate and evaluate the cinema of Satyajit Ray from an Indian aesthetic as well as an Indian social and historical perspective',...
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The New York Observer
Wes Is More! Pretension Pollutes the New York Film Festival
9/25/2007: 1,087 words, approx. 4 pages
Darjeeling Is Limited There are good movies, bad movies, honorable failures, good movies that indifferent audiences turn into flops and bad movies that smart publicists and ham actors turn into hits with bookings on Jay Leno. I usually welcome them all. But if there is...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
4,822 words, approx. 16 pages
Ray is a great director, and ipso facto cannot be typical of anything, perhaps not even reliably himself (it is the prerogative of all great artists constantly to take us by surprise). But it seems reasonable to assume that he must have come from something and fit into some sort of context. And so of course he does. Not particularly a cinematic context: eighteen years after the appearance of Pather Panchali, the first of the Apu trilogy, he is still a solitary figure, a unique talent in Indian cinema, and t...
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Critical Essay by Robin Wood
2,425 words, approx. 8 pages
I should confront the problem … of the accessibility of Ray's films for western audiences: can we feel any confidence that we are adequately understanding, intellectually and emotionally, works which are the product of a culture very different from our own? The problem has two aspects. One is content, our intermittent sense that certain passages or details in the films may mean something more, or something different, to Indian audiences. The other is tempo: the chief explicit grumble in the We...
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Critical Essay by Eric Rhode
1,789 words, approx. 6 pages
In general, Satyajit Ray's films embarrass the critics. Admirers go impressionistic, talk airily of Human Values, and look offended when asked to be more precise. Detractors are no less vague. Some of them call his work charming, in a tone which could hardly carry more weight of suspicion and distrust, or say they are not interested in the problems of the Indian peasantry. Only M. Truffaut, in describing Pather Panchali as Europeanised and insipid, has firmly placed himself in the opposition. This mu...
 
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Essay Grade: 83%
Personal Satisfaction vs. Financial Rewards in "Patol Babu, Film Star"
357 words, approx. 1 pages
Personal satisfaction is more important than financial rewards, as depicted in Satyajit Ray's short story "Patol Babu, Film Star." The main character Patol Babu realized that personal satisfaction could not be measured and weighed by money, and so he acted in the film out of passion he felt toward the job more than because of the money he would make from the job.


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