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  1. ‘Not just Hollywood crap’: Mike Leigh on the distributor who brought world cinema to the UK
    By Andrew Pulver

    A new season at the BFI celebrates Contemporary Films and its founder Charles Cooper, who bet on Britain taking to Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, Stayajjit Ray – and a young Mike Leigh

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Film #MikeLeigh #Culture #SatyajitRay #IngmarBergman #AndrzejWajda #YasujiroOzu #Filmindustry #TheGuardian #AndrewPulver

  2. लेखक, निर्देशक से बड़ा होता है : गोविन्द निहलानी

    साभार : सारिका फरवरी 1985

    #Aghaat #ArdhaSatya #BRChopra #Cinema #Drohkaal #GovindNihalani #KidarSharma #Literature #Panvalkar #ParallelCinema #Party1984 #SatyajitRay #SwayamSiddha #Tamas #VShantaram
  3. Hey #Bookstodon - currently in #India and was thinking about picking up a Satyajit Ray book. Any recommendation as to which one to get? Was thinking of “Indigo” by Penguin. I have never read him before but he has been on my list for a while!

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit

    #MastIndia #books #satyajitray #Bengali #WestBengal #Literature #Reading

  4. as a child I loved this #movie as a comedy. the lively humour is extremely well delivered by every actor.

    as an adult I feel the pain and fear shown on the faces of the farmer, the mining labour and the teacher. I can appreciate the political satire that it is.

    watching it today was almost like
    #SatyajitRay talking to the current population of #India, before the #LokSabhaElections2024, through this 1980 movie. he is telling us to be extremely careful of the ruler who is willing to #brainwash the public using targeted #misinformation.

    #farmersprotest
    @[email protected]

  5. I was thinking about the present conditions of #India when I suddenly thought of revisiting this #movie by #SatyajitRay. "Hirak Rajar Deshe" (In the Land of the Diamond-King). Its portrayal of moving to dictatorial rule is dangerously accurate.

    I really wanted to share
    this #song from the #film. It is in #bengali so I shall provide a translation.

    I see such funny things in the world.
    Everywhere I look, I am confused beyond words.
    I can't make sense of this world.
    Oh brother!

    Look at the good fellows stuck in their dilapidated homes.
    The evil one ascends the throne.
    The wheat farmer can't manage two square meals.
    The diamond mine's labours are living in poverty.
    Oh Brother, how funny is our world!
    The full movie has decent subtitles. I would really encourage watching it.
    https://youtu.be/8eqw0HUph48

    #dictatorship #democracy #brainwashing

  6. Days and Nights in the Forest 1970 ‘অরণ্যের দিনরাত্রি’
    Directed by Satyajit Ray

    Four friends from #Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply. #India #Cinema #Indian #Movie #SatyajitRay #Asiancinema

  7. #Bales2023FilmChallenge September 6: freebie: lipstick (July 29 redux)

    Set in 1950s #Calcutta, #SatyajitRay's মহানগর [Mahanagar / The Big City] (1963) is a story of emancipation in a changing society. Arati (#MadhaviMukherjee) is a housewife from a traditionalist family, who – in order to support her relatives' lavish demands – goes out to work as a door-to-door saleswoman. Slowly, she discovers her independence.

    #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

  8. The Big City 1963 ‘মহানগর’
    Directed by Satyajit Ray

    Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. #India #Cinema #Classicfilm #Inian #Movie #Asianfilm #SatyajitRay

  9. Had a great time on Saturday evening at the "Remembering Ray" event by Katha Khoj. Six lovely stories by the brilliant #SatyajitRay, told by six talented storytellers from #Pune. Not a dull moment.

    Katha Khoj (the FB page link included) are a #Pune based org that is creating a lovely community of story tellers. If in Pune, check out their FB page for any future programs. I will totally recommend them.

    m.facebook.com/kathakhojpune/

    @mastodonindians

  10. MUSIC OF SATYAJIT RAY (1984) | Director- Utpalendu Chakrabarty | Satyajit Ray

    "The music of Satyajit Ray is a multi-layered blending of Western sense and Indian sensibility. Ray has brought to his filmmaking a musical sense and skill that was as much a gift of his family as a product he cultivated overtime."

    #SatyajitRay #Music #Art #India #Film #Charulata #Cinephile

    youtube.com/watch?v=jGbzBXIAvx

  11. নন্দিতা দাসের ছবি দেখতে গিয়ে কেন মনে পড়ল সত্যজিৎ রায় আর কেন লোচের ছবিগুলোকে? লিখছেন দেবারতি গুপ্ত #Zwigato #satyajitray @bengali_convo
    nagorik.net/culture/cinema/zwi

  12. Tonight we're watching the #CriterionCollection edition of #SatyajitRay's 1956 film Aparajito (The Unvanquished) which is the second in his Apu Trilogy following the life and times of Apu Roy in the 1920's and 1930's.

    In this film, Apu's family has moved from the small rural village to the holy city of Varanasi where his father earns a living as a sort of priestly busker on the steps of the Ganges.

    We follow Apu's life through adolescence and college.

    Another great score by #RaviShankar.

  13. Tonight we're watching the #CriterionCollection edition of #SatyajitRay's 1955 film #PatherPanchali (Song of the Little Road) which is the first in his Apu Trilogy following the life and times of Apu Roy in early 20th century Bengali. In this film, we follow Apu growing up in a poor rural village.
    Featuring a great score by #RaviShankar. #IndianCinema

  14. আমরা যারা সত্তর আশির দশকে বড় হয়েছি, আমরা যে ফেলুদাকে চিনতাম, আর যে জটায়ুকে চিনি, সেটা কিছুটা আমাদের কল্পনায়, কিছুটা স্বয়ং সত্যজিতের মানে স্রস্টার নিজের চোখের মনের বিচারে। সেখানে সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের ফেলুদা চিত্রায়নের একটা সমকালীন দার্শনিক তাৎপর্য রয়েছে, ষাটের দশকের বুদ্ধিদীপ্ত বাঙালীর চিত্রায়ণ । এই ব্যাপারটা পরবর্তী কালে আর কেউই তুলে আনতে পারেননি। একই রকম ভাবে জটায়ুর চিত্রায়ণ সন্তোষ দত্তের। ব্যাপারটা ঠিক সন্তোষ দত্তের মতন দেখতে হবার ব্যাপার নয়, এমনকি ম্যানারিজমেরও নয়। এক বিশেষ রকমের বাঙালী, যাঁরা আজকাল অবলুপ্ত প্রজাতি মাত্র।

    ফেলুদার প্যাসটিচ হতে পারে, তবে সত্যজিতের গল্প নিয়ে সিনেমা না হওয়াই মনে হয় ভাল। যে মানুষ মনে থাকেন তাকে মনে রেখে দেওয়াই বোধহয় ভাল।

    @bengali_convo

    #SatyajitRay