Satyajit Ray "The Magician"

Akira Kurosawa said - "The quiet but deep observation, understanding and love of the human race, which are characteristic of all his films, have impressed me greatly. ...I feel that he is a "giant" of the movie industry." He was referring to a Bengal named Satyajit Ray.

Satyajit Ray, an Indian producer and among the dozen or so awesome bosses of world silver screen, is known for his humanistic way to deal with film. He made his movies in Bengali, a dialect talked in the eastern territory of India - West Bengal. But then, his movies are of widespread intrigue. They are about things that make up humankind - connections, feelings, battle, clashes, delights and distresses.

The Master Storyteller

Satyajit Ray, the ace storyteller, has left a realistic legacy that has a place as much with India with regards to the world. His movies exhibit a surprising humanism, expand perception and inconspicuous treatment of characters and circumstances. The film of Satyajit Ray is an uncommon mix of acumen and feelings. He is controlled, exact, fastidious, but then, inspires profound enthusiastic reaction from the group of onlookers. His movies portray a fine affectability without utilizing acting or sensational abundances. He developed an artistic style that is relatively imperceptible. He emphatically accepted - "The best procedure is the one that is not perceptible".

In spite of the fact that at first propelled by the neo-pragmatist convention, his silver screen has a place not with a particular classification or style but rather an ageless meta-sort of a style of narrating that touches the gathering of people somehow. His movies have a place with a meta-type that incorporates crafted by Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, David Lean, Federico Fellini, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Renoir, Luis Bunuel, Yasujiro Ozu, Ritwik Ghatak and Robert Bresson. All altogether different in style and content, but makers of silver screen that is immortal and widespread.

Great Oeuvre

Satyajit Ray's movies are both true to life and abstract in the meantime; utilizing a basic story, as a rule in an established configuration, however incredibly point by point and working at numerous levels of elucidation. His first movie, Pather Panchali (Song of the little street, 1955) set up his notoriety for being a noteworthy movie executive, winning various honors including Best Human Document, Cannes, 1956 and Best Film, Vancouver, 1958. It is the primary film of a set of three - The Apu Trilogy - a three-section story of a kid's life from birth through masculinity. The other two movies of this set of three are Aparajito (The Unvanquished, 1956) and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959). His later movies incorporate Jalsaghar (The Music Room, 1958), Devi (The Goddess, 1960), Teen Kanya (Two Daughters, 1961), Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964), Nayak (The Hero, 1966), Asani Sanket (Distant Thunder, 1973), Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players, 1977), Ghare Baire (The Home and the World, 1984), Ganashatru (An Enemy Of The People, 1989) and Shakha Prashakha (Branches Of The Tree, 1991). Agantuk (The Stranger, 1991) was his last film.

Genuine Auteur

Beam specifically controlled numerous parts of film making. He composed all the screenplays of his movies, a considerable lot of which depended without anyone else stories. He outlined the sets and outfits, worked the camera since Charulata (1964), he made the music for every one of his movies since 1961 and composed the attention blurbs for his new discharges. Notwithstanding film making, Ray was an author, an essayist and a visual creator. He even composed another typeface. In 1961, he restored and kept on distributing the Bengali youngsters' magazine "Sandesh", which was established by his granddad Upendrakishore Ray .

Honors

In 1978, the sorting out advisory group of the Berlin Film Festival positioned him as one of the three record-breaking best executives. In 1992, Satyajit Ray got the privileged Academy Award ©A.M.P.A.S. ® - Lifetime Achievement - "In acknowledgment of his uncommon dominance of the specialty of movies and for his significant philanthropic standpoint, which has had a permanent impact on producers and gatherings of people all through the world." Other respects incorporate "Lègion d'Honneur", France and "Bharatratna" (Jewel of India)