Title of film : Ray : Life And Work Of Satyajit Ray
Cast & crew :
Producer : Satyajit Ray Archive
Editor : Maloy Banerjee
Cast :
Synopsis : Ghose's 100-minute documentary remains one of the rare works on the legendary director, Satyajit Ray. The director describes “Ray” as a trip into the world of a renaissance figure – larger than life almost unreal in his intensity. It opens with a footage of Audrey Hepburn announcing “The Academy Board of governors have voted to award honorary Oscar to the great Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray”. The camera then moves on to a clip that shows Ray in his Kolkata hospital bed. Holding the trophy, Ray painfully gasps for breath while describing it as a “...magnificent award, certainly the best achievement of my movie-making career”. Incidentally, India hardly has a tradition of preserving archive films. Valuable archive footage on Ray, notably his dialogue with Marlon Brando and a rare round-table discussion featuring Ray, Italian film-maker Michelangelo Antonioni, Greek American director-producer Elia Kazan and Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa that was anchored in 1975 by Amita Malik have been shockingly lost by Doordarshan
