The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

276 Pages·30.298 MB·English

by  Chidananda Dasgupta

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The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

The Cinema
of
Ray
Satyajit
CHIDANANDA DAS GUPTA
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NATIONAL BOOK TRUST, INDIA
For
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Cover photograph: Shri Nemai Ghosh. Courtesy: Desh 28 March 1992.
Endpapers:Apu(SubirBanerjee),Sarbajoya(KarunaBanerjee)andDurga(UmaDasGupta)
in Pather Panchali, 1955. The guest (Utpal Dutt) and children inAgantuk, 1991.
Courtesy: Technica, Nemai Ghosh.
Photographs: Pather Panchali to Chidiakhana, courtesy: Technica; Goopi Gyne Bagha Byne to
Agantuk. Courtesy: Nemai Ghosh.
Ray's illustrations: Courtesy: Desh 28 March 1992.
ISBN81-237-0753-3
FirstNBTEdition,1994
SecondRevisedandEnlargedEdition2001 (Saka1922)
©ChidanandaDasGupta,1994
Rs 130.00
PublishedbytheDirector,National BookTrust,India
A-5GreenPark,NewDelhi-110016
Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction ix
1. The Bengal Renaissance and
the Tagorean Synthesis 3
2. Problems of Identity 17
3. Before Pather Panchali 29
4. The Apu Trilogy 39
5. The Rest of the First Ten Years 57
6. Uncertainty and a New Search:
The Period after Charulata 87
7. Grappling with Contemporary Reality 101
8. The Last Phase 133
9. Classicism 143
10. Creative Approaches 153
11. Modernism and Mythicality 173
Filmography 185
Biographical Outline 195
Bibliography 201