About the Book: The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
AN ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR EVERY CINEPHILES LIBRARY
Satyajit Ray is the tallest Indian figure in world cinema. Retrospectives across
the globe, perhaps even more than at home, have kept his legacy alive. But how
do we understand his cinema in the context of a vastly different world? What
keeps great cinema from becoming dated? What are the particularities of Rays
movies that cause them to endure?
Bhaskar Chattopadhyays literary engagement with Rays cinema spans years. In this
book, he revisits each one of Satyajit Rays thirty-nine feature films, shorts
and documentaries to investigate their cinematic and social context. He