Satyajit Ray : the inner eye : the biography of the master film-maker / Andrew Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992.

Ray, Satyajit.

Motion picture producers and directors--India--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2021.

Summary:

"Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in 2021: 'The films of Satyajit Ray are truly treasures of cinema, and everyone with an interest in film needs to see them.' Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye is the definitive biography, based on extensive interviews with Ray himself, his actors and collaborators, and a deep knowledge of Bengali culture. Andrew Robinson provides an in-depth critical account of each film in an astonishingly versatile career, from Ray's directorial debut Pather Panchali (1955) to his final feature Agantuk (1991). The third (centenary) edition includes new material: an epilogue, 'A century of Ray', about the nature of his genius; a wide-ranging conversation with Ray drawn from the author's interviews; and an updated comprehensive bibliography of Ray's writings."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

SATYAJIT RAY: THE INNER EYE by Andrew Robinson

Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements

vii List of Illustrations

x Note on the Pronunciation and Spelling of Bengali

xii Introduction: Getting to know Ray

1

A Bengali Banyan Tree: The Ray Family

2

Early Years 1921?40

3

Santiniketan and Tagore 1940?2

4

Commercial Artist and Critic 1943?50

5

The Making of Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) 1950?5

6

The Apu Trilogy 1955?9: Pather Panchali, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), The World of Apu

(Apur Sansar)

7

Comedies: The Philosopher's Stone (Parash Pathar) 1958, Mahapurush (The Holy Man) 1964 8

The Music Room (Jalsaghar) 1958

9

The Goddess (Devi) 1960

10

Three Daughters (Teen Kanya) 1961

11

Kanchenjungha 1962

12

Abhijan (The Expedition) 1962

13

Mahanagar (The Big City) 1963

14

Charulata (The Lonely Wife) 1964

15

Kapurush (The Coward) 1965

16

Nayak (The Hero) 1966

17

Musicals: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne) 1969, The

Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Dese) 1980

18

Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri) 1969

19

The Calcutta Trilogy: The Adversary (Pratidwandi) 1970, Company Limited (Seemabaddha)

1971, The Middle Man (Jana Aranya) 1975

20

Distant Thunder (Asani Sanket) 1973 21

Detective Films: Chiriakhana (The Zoo) 1967, The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella) 1974, The

Elephant God (Joi Baba Felunath) 1978

22

The Chess Players (Shatranj ke Khilari) 1977

23

Two 1964, Pikoo 1980

24

Deliverance (Sadgati) 1981

25

The Home and the World (Ghare Baire) 1984

26

Documentaries: Sikkim 1971, Sukumar Ray 1987, Rabindranath Tagore 1961, Bala 1976, The

Inner Eye 1972

27

Unmade Films: Ravi Shankar, The Mahabharata, A Passage to India, The Alien

28

Ray as Designer, Illustrator and Writer

29

'Some Aspects of His Craft': Ray as Film-maker

30

'The Inner Eye'.

31

Koh-i-noor: An Enemy of the People (Ganasatru) 1989, Branches of the Tree (Sakha Prasakha)

1990, The Stranger (Agantuk) 1991, and the Legacy of Satyajit Ray

Epilogue: A Century of Satyajit Ray, 1921-2021 A Conversation with Ray Glossary

Filmography

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previous ed.: London: Deutsch, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-25853-9

1-350-25852-0

1-350-25851-2

OCLC:

1281198048