Satyajit Ray: One of the world’s greatest directors who recognized Indian cinema in the world
Satyajit Ray, who has given a new identity to the realistic stream films, was one of the world’s greatest film personalities in the 20th century, counted among the best film directors and who gave Indian cinema a distinct identity in the world.
Satyajit Ray, who started his career as a painter, after watching the Italian film Bicycle Thif, there was a tendency towards the film direction and the cine world got a great filmmaker.
His film journey started with ‘Pather Panchali’. This first film expressed that a different figure has arrived in the cinema world. The film received many awards and is counted in his famous films. He directed about three dozen films. He received many honors including Bharat Ratna and Honorary Oscar Academy Award.
The storyteller-painter-musician was also
Satyajit Ray, born on 2 May 1921 in a Bengali family in Calcutta (now Kolkata), used to do many things related to filmmaking himself. These include screenplay, lateral music, art direction, editing etc. Apart from the filmmaker, he was also a storyteller, painter, film critic. Satyajit Ray believed that writing plot is an integral part of direction.
Justice done with literary works
Films made on Saihityik works often become a subject of criticism and people are not satisfied with their adaptation in films, but Satyajit Ray has done well with literary works. For example, ‘chess player’ can be seen.
Premchand’s story ‘Chess Khiladi’ speaks the entire era of that time in the film made by the same name. In this film based on the background of 1857, the culture of Awadh has emerged excellently.
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In his story Premchand, what he wants to say about the era, he has come out more clearly in Satyajit Ray’s film. The expansion or spread of the film is more obvious than the story.
Actually, how big directors Satyajit Ray was, it seems to watch the film ‘Chess Ke Khiladi’. At the end of this story of the novel Emperor Premchand, it is shown that two Nawabs die while fighting among themselves. It is shown through this story that the Nawabi civilization ends with the arrival of the British.
Ray changed the end of this story, giving a new meaning to this story. Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey, who play the Nawabs at the end of the film, shoot each other, but the two survive. So Ray tried to establish the fact that even though the Nawabi civilization has ended, his evils are still intact in the society.
Satyajit Ray said in an interview about this film that he does not know Hindi. If he had a hold on this language, the chess player would have been ten times better.
Hold on child psychology
According to critics, Satyajit Ray expressed his creative energy well not only through films, but also through the gradation. Art reviewers place the sketches made for children’s magazines and books in the category of art critics.
Ray had a tremendous hold on child psychology and this introduction is found in his series of Feluda stories. The stories of this series contain all the elements of Sarasata, Interestingness and keeping readers tied.
Ray died on 23 April 1992. Apart from dozens of feature films, he has left several documentaries and short films, which are textbooks for cinema students.
