Satyajit Ray

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(May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, one of the greatest directors of the 20th century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta), into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing the Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London.

Ray directed thirty-seven films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Ray’s first film, Pather Panchali, won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Document at Cannes. Along with Aparajito and Apur Sansar, the film forms the Apu trilogy. Ray worked on an array of tasks, including scripting, casting, scoring, cinematography, art direction, editing and designing his own credit titles and publicity material. Apart from making films, he was a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer and film critic. Ray received many major awards in his career, including an Academy Honorary Award in 1992.

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Tarkovsky86 wrote:
August 2009

I created a group in honor of Satyajit Ray. Join if you want http://www.lastfm.es/group/Satyajit+Ray

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KouFa wrote:
June 2009

:D

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wendell3 wrote:
January 2009

I answer my own question by reading below. Amazing.

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wendell3 wrote:
January 2009

Oh my god did Ray actually score some of his own films??

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Tron1276 wrote:
May 2008

great...

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unterwasser wrote:
November 2007

''Satyajit Ray recorded his own music? Since when? I thought he used Ravi Shankar, among others.'' Yes, he used Shankar, among others but he also scored around 30 of his films. There really wasn't much he couldn't do.

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Daniel1986 wrote:
November 2007

Satyajit Ray features in the soundtrack for the upcoming film 'The Darjeeling Limited'. Join the group page here: http://www.last.fm/group/the%20darjeeling%20limited and be in with a chance of winning an iPod and the soundtrack

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RPaleja wrote:
October 2007

Satyajit Ray recorded his own music? Since when? I thought he used Ravi Shankar, among others.

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