A six-year restoration journey spearheaded by filmmaker Wes Anderson has culminated in Satyajit Ray‘s 1970 masterpiece “Aranyer Din Ratri” (“Days and Nights in the Forest”) securing a slot at Cannes ...

After showing to sell-out audiences in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles during a major retrospective of Satyajit Ray’s work, The Expedition (Abhijaan, 1962), a newly restored film by the ...

Before the movies, Ray crafted ads, book covers. His love affair with the storyboard never really ended. The sketches always ...

Rajesh Khanna was not keen on doing Aradhana, the film that made him an overnight star. He called it 'heroine-oriented' and ...

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - The Oscars academy has restored a rare print of a controversial film by India's famed director Satyajit Ray that was banned by Indian censors for glorifying monarchy in a ...

Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri turns 56 years old on January 16. The film remains relevant for its clear-eyed themes of ...

Satyajit Ray’s name may not sound familiar, but in film circles, the Indian director’s name can be found alongside those of Francois Truffaut and Akira Kurosawa. “It’s a cliched phrase that film is a ...

Sundeep Bhutoria is a culturist, social activist and wildlife enthusiast based in Kolkata, India. He is associated with various non-governmental organizations and is at the forefront of several social ...

Ray had an imagination rooted, from the start, in moving images. See how Santiniketan, Tagore, and the simple beauty of ...

Satyajit Ray, whose evocative films of life in dirt-poor Bengal drew small audiences at home but critical acclaim worldwide, died Thursday (April 23, 1992). He was 70. Mr. Ray, who last month was ...

If you developed a taste for Bengali cinema in the first flush after independence, there were three important film-makers you would argue over at your favourite adda, the literal or metaphoric space ...