Satyajit Ray would have turned 104 today. He was not just a filmmaker, he was a visionary who transformed the language of Indian and global cinema. A master of storytelling rooted in realism ...

Jana Aranya (The Middleman) inarguably one of the leading social oriented films of Satyajit Ray is five decades old. Looking back on its turning 50, the director shows he was in pace with the ...

Before taking a close look at the three feature films that comprise Ray’s tribute to Tagore we might note a few similarities between the two cultural giants.

We have imbibed Western education, Western music, Western art, Western literature,” Ray said. 3 Ray’s creative sensibility was a combination of nature and nurture.

Just prior to his death in 1992, Satyajit Ray wrote Target as a legacy for his son, who is an award-winning director. Described by the Washington Post as “a subtle, unexpectedly powerful movie,” ...

That young man, Satyajit Ray, became one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers and that first movie, “Pather Panchali” (“Song of the Little Road”), a masterpiece.