On Satyajit Ray’s 100th birth anniversary, let’s take a look at the films he directed

New Delhi: The famend auteur, Satyajit Ray is hailed as the maverick and best filmmaker not simply in India however worldwide. His cinema mirrored the society of the time and brilliantly highlighted the class disaster and battle on-screen. Ray, was pushed to filmmaking after assembly French director Jean Renoir and watching the well-known Italian neo-realist movie ‘Bicycle Thieves’ by Vittoria De Sica. 

Born in a household of prolific writers and artistes, Ray’s dad and mom had been Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Satyajit Ray, earlier than making his mark as a filmmaker, additionally labored in an promoting company, publishing home – designing e book covers for a lot of. 

In reality, he designed for Jibanananda Das’s ‘Banalata Sen’, and ‘Rupasi Bangla’, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s ‘Chander Pahar’, Jim Corbett’s ‘Maneaters of Kumaon’, and Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Discovery of India’. He additionally labored on a youngsters’s model of ‘Pather Panchali’, a basic Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, renamed as Aam Antir Bhepu (The mango-seed whistle).

Ray was so influenced by his work at the publishing home that he used his illustrations as nonetheless pictures in the first movie he helmed.

On his 100th birth anniversary (May 2, 1921) let’s take a look at the films he directed: 

1955 Pather Panchali

1956 Aparajito

1958 Parash Pathar, Jalsaghar

1959 Apur Sansar

1960 Devi

1961 Teen Kanya

 • The Postmaster

 • Monihara

 • Samapti

1961 Rabindranath Tagore

1962 Kanchenjungha, Abhijan

1963 Mahanagar

1964 Charulata, Two

1965 Kapurush-O-Mahapurush

 • Kapurush

 • Mahapurush

1966 Nayak

1967 Chiriyakhana

1969 Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

1970 Aranyer Din Ratri

1970 Pratidwandi

1971 Seemabaddha, Sikkim 

1972 The Inner Eye 

1973 Ashani Sanket

1974 Sonar Kella

1976 Jana Aranya

1976 Bala

1977 Shatranj Ke Khilari

1979 Joi Baba Felunath

1980 Hirak Rajar Deshe, Pikoo

1981 Sadgati

1984 Ghare Baire

1987 Sukumar Ray

1989 Ganashatru

1990 Shakha Proshakha

1991 Agantuk

Satyajit Ray was graced by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Honorary Academy Award. He turned the first and the solely Indian, but, to obtain the honour. He acquired it 24 days earlier than his loss of life, calling it the “Best achievement of his movie-making career.”

Ray breathed his final on April 23, 1992.

Satyajit Ray has left behind a legacy of cinematic brilliance which colleges the aspiring film makers and actors on methods to view actuality and create magic on the reel.