Maybe that’s why the experience of watching Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy — movies adapted from two works by Indian novelist Bibhutibhushan Banerjee and set in a country many of us will never even visit ...

Even if you live in the same city or town your whole life, the place you came from is always a distant country: Old trees are cut down to be replaced, one hopes, by new ones; shops and businesses ...

Marjin De Wit, writer of the Dutch film 'Memory Lane', expressed his love for 'Apu trilogy', 'Pyaasa' and 'Mughal-E-Azam', in ...

The Criterion Collection maintains that “Pather Panchali” (1955), “Aparajito” (1956), and “Apur Sansar” (1959), a set of films by the pioneering Indian writer and director Satyajit Ray, can be enjoyed ...

Two Daughters. The magic of India’s Satyajit Ray, who directed the Apu trilogy and Devi, lies in his ability to translate the life around him into such universal terms that Western audiences see his ...

Devi follows the triumphant “Apu” trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu) of India’s young producerdirector, Satyajit Ray. If it does not quite measure up to the earlier triumphs, it is ...

A Cuban black-and-white film \"To the West, in Zapatta\" is a top contender at the Kolkata International Film Festival.

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - The Oscars academy has restored a rare print of a controversial film by India's famed director Satyajit Ray that was banned by Indian censors for glorifying monarchy in a ...

There is something very real about the women in Satyajit Ray’s cinema. Satyajit emphasised the boldness and honesty in their imperfections—he did not scream feminism, he observed and he portrayed them ...

When Satyajit Ray's 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest) returned to Cannes this May, it was far from a faded relic. Restored by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and the Film Heritage ...

Sundeep Bhutoria is a culturist, social activist and wildlife enthusiast based in Kolkata, India. He is associated with various non-governmental organizations and is at the forefront of several social ...

Bangladesh has begun demolishing the century‑old ancestral home of internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Satyajit Ray north of the capital Dhaka. The house was once used as the Mymensingh Shishu Academy ...