SATYAJIT. RAY
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Product Description Language: EnglishPages: 248 (Throughout B/W Illustrations)Sample Pages About the Author Satyajit Ray (1921 92) was one of the grea
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test film-makers of his time. His first film Pather Panchali (1955) won an award at the Cannes Film Festival and established his reputation as a major director. Over the next forty years, he made a number of films, many of which went on to be acknowledged as all-time classics. He is the only Indian to have received the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992. He was also a prolific writer on cinema, and his writings include Our Films Their Films, Speaking of Films, Deep Focus, Satyajit Ray s Ravi Shankar and The Pather Panchali Sketchbook. Bhaskar Chattopadhyay is an author and translator with ten published books in the last four years. His translations include the anthology 14: Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray and his original novels include Patang, Penumbra and Here Falls the Shadow. Bhaskar is also a regular contributor to various publications about literature and world cinema and a columnist on the cinema of Satyajit Ray for Firstpost.
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