Bansi said: “Satyajit didn’t know what to say during the making of Pather Panchali.” Satyajit chipped in: “Bansi would whisper to me: Say...

“If you are showing a matinee idol, then you have to cast a star. Nobody else would do; people wouldn’t accept the fact”. “I always...

In what was the first film for both of them, Soumitra Chatterji and Sharmila Tagore got together to turn the screen into a luminous poem....

by Juhi Saklani As Satyajit Ray prepared for the shooting of ‘Jalsaghar’ and Chhabi Biswas took horse-riding lessons for his role,...

Satyajit Ray was tired. He and his colleagues had seen and rejected some 30 havelis and palaces that had been suggested to them as...

Today it feels very endearing that Satyajit Ray, disturbed by the commercial failure of his second film Aparajito and wanting his...

Aparajito, the second film in the Apu Trilogy, did not do well in terms of ticket sales in Bengal. After the success of Pather Panchali,...

The producer of Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977), Suresh Jindal, in his book on the making of the film describes the reaction of two actors to...

Did you know that Satyajit Ray had designed four Roman fonts, of which one had won an international competition in 1971? When Ray left...

Doesn't this shot from Aparajito (1956) look exactly as if Apu's parents, Sarbajaya and Harihar, are in the open courtyard of an old...

In 1944, 23-year-old Ray had already been working as a visual artist in the British ad agency DJ Keymer & Co. for a year. He had also...

60 years after Pather Panchali had been released, a friend of mine went to rural West Bengal in the autumn months and saw fields of...