What is profound in his work is the sophisticated experimentation with various artistic styles and traditions, both local and foreign, without compromising authenticity. He designed book covers, film posters and illustrated children’s books among other and even created two award winning Bangla fonts. Long before his emergence as a film icon, long before looking through the lens for the first shot of Pather Panchali, he started his career as a graphic illustrator. He was also a brilliant graphic designer. He had mastered almost all the aspects of filmmaking.īut there is one more side of him that is comparatively unknown. It was because of this man that I learned about the word “auteur” and he defines it to perfection. The director is the only person who knows what the film is about. His books have also been translated in English, German, Polish, French, Spanish, Italian and other Indian languages. Ray’s anthology of film criticism, “Our Films, Their Films” is an absolute treat for cinephiles. He also penned a collection of non-fiction essays on his experience of shooting and on his childhood. He was an author who wrote innumerable novels and short stories for children, his greatest literary gift to us being Feluda, which is immortalised through the evolution of a character to a cult icon to an emotion (well, Feluda is definitely a topic for another discussion). The emotions of his characters found better expression through his musical notes. It was his music that made the flow of the narrative simpler for us. His love for classical music – both Indian and Western – was evident in every score he composed. His music was called “haunting and soul stirring at the same time” by composer Maurice Jarre. He was a music composer and lyricist who believed that music was intrinsic to the sensibility of a film. He was a filmmaker and screenwriter who is hailed as one of the world’s best, whose unique as well as universal style of storytelling inspires all young filmmakers across the globe to this very day.
The world knows that Satyajit Ray played a varied number of roles in the world of filmmaking. Satyajit Ray – a man who had the deepest impact on me when it comes to cinema, a man who taught me to understand cinema as a form of art and fall in love with this medium.Īmidst these gloomy days that we are in right now, could there be any other auspicious day for me to start writing again than the birthday of the master himself?
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