Satyajit Ray, an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in the eastern state of India - West Bengal. And yet, his films are of universal interest. They are about things that make up the human race - relationships, emotions, struggle, conflicts, joys and sorrows.

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2.  Satyajit Ray, an Indian filmmaker and among the
dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known
for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his
films in Bengali, a language spoken in the eastern
state of India -West Bengal. And yet, his films are of
universal interest.They are about things that make
up the human race - relationships, emotions,
struggle, conflicts, joys and sorrows.

3.  Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921, in an intellectual and affluent family
in Calcutta, India.
His grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray (Roychowdhury) was a distinguished
writer, painter, a violin player and a composer. He was also a pioneer in half-
tone block making and founded one of the finest presses in the country - U.
Ray & Sons. He died six years before Satyajit Ray was born.
His father, Sukumar Ray (1887-1923), the eldest son of Upendra Kishore,
studied printing technology in England and joined the family business. He
too was an eminent poet, writer and illustrator of nonsense literature in the
tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.
Sukumar Ray fell ill the year Satyajit Ray was born with a dreaded tropical
disease of the time - Kala-azar. He regularly contributed poems, stories and
illustrations to 'Sandesh', a children's magazine in Bengali which Satyajit
Ray's grandfather had started publishing and printing. Need less to say the
child Satyajit was fascinated by the block making and the printing process.

4.  Satyajit Ray, the master storyteller, has left a cinematic
heritage that belongs as much to India as to the world. His
films demonstrate a remarkable humanism, elaborate
observation and subtle handling of characters and situations.
The cinema of Satyajit Ray is a rare blend of intellect and
emotions. He is controlled, precise, meticulous, and yet,
evokes deep emotional response from the audience. His films
depict a fine sensitivity without using melodrama or dramatic
excesses. He evolved a cinematic style that is almost invisible.
Though initially inspired by the neo-realist tradition, his
cinema belongs not to a specific category or style but a
timeless meta-genre of a style of story telling that touches the
audience in some way

5.  At an age of eight, Satyajit joined Ballygunj Government
School, until then he had been taught by his mother.
Satyajit was an average student.
While still at school, he became a film fan, regularly
reading Hollywood trivia in magazines like Picturegoer
and Photoplay.Western classical music was another
interest. He would often pick-up gramophone records at
flea markets. He matriculated when he was just short of
fifteen.

7.  His mother insisted upon Satyajit joining college. At the
Presidency College, Satyajit read science for the first two years
and for the third year, he took economics. (An uncle had
assured him a job if he graduated in economics.)
In films, his interest had shifted from stars to directors,
savouring offering of Ernst Lubitsch, John Ford, Frank Capra,
andWilliamWyler. He became a subscriber of Sight & Sound.
He graduated in 1939.At the age of eighteen, he decided to
give up further studies. Even though he had no formal training,
he was planning to become a commercial artist. He had a
natural flair for drawing. His mother however felt that he was
too young to take up a job. She suggested that he should join
as a student of painting at Shantiniketan. After initial
resistance, he agreed.

8.  Agantuk
 Shakha Proshakha
 GanaShatru
 Ghare Baire
 Hirak Rajar Deshe
 Jai Baba Felunath
 Jana Aranya
 Sonar Kella
 Shimabaddha
 Ashani Sanket
 Pratidwandi
 Aranyer Din Ratri

9.  Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen
 Chiriakhana
 Kapurush
 Mahapurush
 Mahanagar
 Abhijan
 Teen Kanya
 Devi
 Jalsaghar
 Apur Sansar
 Pather Panchali

10.  Ray received many awards, including 32 National FilmAwards by the
Government of India, and awards at international film festivals.At the
Moscow International Film Festival in 1979, he was awarded with the
Honorable Prize for the contribution to cinema . At the Berlin International
Film Festival, he was one of only three filmmakers to win the Silver Bear for
Best Director more than once and holds the record for the most number of
Golden Bear nominations, with seven. At theVenice Film Festival, where he
had previously won a Golden Lion for Aparajito (1956), he was awarded the
Golden Lion Honorary Award in 1982.That same year, he received an
honorary "Hommage à Satyajit Ray" award at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
 Ray is the second film personality after Chaplin to have been awarded an
honorary doctorate by Oxford University. He was awarded the Dadasaheb
Phalke Award in 1985 and the Legion of Honor by the President of France in
1987.The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan in 1965and
the highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, shortly before his death.The
Academy of Motion PictureArts and Sciences awarded Ray an Honorary
Oscar in 1992 for LifetimeAchievement. It was one of his favourite
actresses,

12.  Ray directed 36 films, including feature films,
documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction
writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music
composer, graphic designer and film critic. He
authored several short stories and novels,
primarily aimed at children and
adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor
Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction
stories, are popular fictional characters created
by him.

14.  Ill health kept Satyajit Ray away from active filmmaking for about
four years. In 1989, he resumed making films with Ibsen's An
Enemy of the People as the basis for his Ganashatru (Enemy of
the People, 1989).This was followed with Shakha Prashakha
(Branches of theTree, 1990) and Agantuk (The Stranger, 1991).
This series of three films were to be his last. Many film critics and
film historians found these films a marked departure from his
earlier work.
In 1992, He accepted a LifetimeAchievement Oscar from his
sickbed in Calcutta through a special live satellite-television event
and Bharat Ratna (the Jewel of India), the ultimate honour from
India.
Satyajit Ray died on April 23, 1992.

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