Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker
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.

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Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker
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.

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Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

by Andrew Robinson
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

by Andrew Robinson

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350258495
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/07/2022
Edition description: 3rd ed.
Pages: 456
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.15(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Andrew Robinson is the author of Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker (I.B.Tauris) and an expert on Ray's work. He is Literary Editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix

Preface to the Third Edition xi

Acknowledgements xii

List of Illustrations xiii

A Note on the Pronunciation and Spelling of Bengali xv

The Ray Family Tree xvi

Introduction: Getting to Know Ray 1

1 A Bengali Banyan Tree: The Ray Family 10

2 Early Years 1921-40 23

3 Santiniketan and Tagore 1940-2 39

4 Commercial Artist and Critic 1943-50 48

5 The Making of Father Panchali 1950-5 64

6 The Apu Trilogy: Father Panchali 1955, Aparajito (The Unvanquished) 1956, The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) 1959 81

7 Comedies: The Philosophers Stone (Parash Pathar) 1958, The Holy Man (Mahapurush) 1964 97

8 The Music Room (Jalsaghar) 1958 103

9 The Goddess (Devi) 1960 111

10 Three Daughters (Teen Kanya) 1961 118

11 Kanchenjungha 1962 126

12 The Expedition (Abhijan) 1962 133

13 The Big City (Mahanagar) 1963 138

14 The Lonely Wife (Charulata) 1964 145

15 The Coward (Kapurush) 1965 158

16 The Hero (Nayak) 1966 164

17 Musicals: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne) 1969, The Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Dese) 1980 169

18 Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri) 1969 179

19 The Calcutta Trilogy: The Adversary (Pratidwandi) 1970, Company Limited (Seemabaddha) 1971, The Middle Man (Jana Aranya) 1975 187

20 Distant Viunder (Asani Sanket) 1973 206

21 Detective Films: The Zoo (Chiriakhana) 1967, The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella) 1974, The Elephant God (Jot Baba Felunath) 1978 215

22 TTie Chess Players (Shatranj ke Khilari) 1977 223

23 Short Films: Two 1964, Pikoo 1980 237

24 Deliverance (Sadgati) 1981 241

25 The Home and the World (Ghare Baire) 1984 248

26 Documentaries: Sikkim 1971, Sukumar Ray 1987, Bala 1976, Rabindranath Tagore 1961, The Inner Eye 1973 258

27 Unmade Films: Ravi Shankar, The Mahabharata, A Passage to India, The Alien 266

28 Ray as Designer, Illustrator and Writer 277

29 'Some Aspects of His Craft': Ray as Film-maker 287

30 'The Inner Eye 300

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 317

Epilogue: A Century of Ray 341

Appendix: Ray in Conversation 346

Glossary 375

Filmography 379

Notes 390

Bibliography 411

Index 421

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