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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicSatyajit Ray

Topic: Satyajit Ray

Day after India’s appeal to reconsider demolition, Yunus govt denies Satyajit Ray link to Bangladesh bldg

Reports this week alleged that Ray’s ancestral home in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh was being razed, sparking outcry. However, the demolition was also reportedly halted.

‘Don’t demolish, we’ll help’: India asks Bangladesh to ‘reconsider’ razing Satyajit Ray’s ancestral home

MEA’s statement comes in response to local reports that ancestral home of Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Ray’s grandfather, is being demolished in Bangladesh after years of neglect.

Delhi exhibition traces 130 yrs of children’s book illustrations. Satyajit Ray to Priya Kurian

Vignettes from 130 years of children’s literature came together in Becoming, an exhibition that resonated with adults too. It ran from 28 April to 6 May.

What is wrong with Indian cinema? Satyajit Ray said melodrama and American influence

In ‘The State and New Cinema in Contemporary India’, Sudha Tiwari examines the setting up and roles of the Film Finance Corporation and the National Film Development Corporation.

Bengali cinema finally moves on from Bakshi, Feluda. A new accidental detective is in town

West Bengal and Bangladesh desperately need a new fictional sleuth, and Aranya Chatterjee from ‘Aranyer Prachin Probad’ perfectly fits the bill. He’s a med student who loves cricket and reading.

‘Would have made Hirak Rani’: Amit Shah invokes Ray classic in dig at Mamata

The BJP leader compared her to the ruthless and oppressive ruler in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Hirak Rajar Deshe’

Bengali films facing identity crisis. Losing box office battle to Pathaans and RRRs

When movies do dive deep into Bengali essentialism, they tend to be unrelatable to a large audience, often indulging in esoteric plots.

Subrata Mitra knew the camera by heart. He was Satyajit Ray’s ‘cinematic eye’

Ray & Mitra created masterpieces like Pather Panchali, Nayak and Devi . Mitra’s lens wove emotions, as seen in the iconic freeze-frames at the end of Charulata.

Bengali cinema has an addiction problem—Now, Byomkesh, Feluda detective-verse about to expand

When Dibakar Banerjee tried to contemporarise Byomkesh merging 3 stories to make the 2015 Hindi film starring Sushant Singh Rajput, it wasn’t stomached easily.

Shatranj Ke Khiladi to Sadgati — when Satyajit Ray found his inspiration in Premchand

Satyajit Ray helped usher in the era of symbolic filmmaking in India through Premchand's poignant, sensitive works. His only two Hindi films are proof.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.