Satyajit Ray Centenary .

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#SatyajitRay100

Look, sure, #Bengali(&, by definition, #Indian🤣) cinema is more than just #SatyajitRay, but any chance to celebrate this colossus is not to be missed!

Check out #TCM, #Criterion, #HBOMax(?!😳🤩) to get a taste of his incomparable films!

Can it have been all those years ago I was lucky enough to watch my first Ray on the big screen, at a film festival in the Middle East, the re-release of #GhareBaire?!

Mummum saw, and (mostly)loved all of his movies (that moment when she broke out in perfect song when I mentioned *that* sequence from #Charulata, sigh...), Didu was a little more clear-eyed in her appreciation(as usual, her favourite catchphrase, "mondo na..."). But, thanks to them, I was able to get through the greatest hits, now, I gotta go watch *all* of them, it's my Bengali duty🤩!

Speaking of greatest hits, I'd recommend some of the underrated ones once you get through the bold names: #DaysAndNightsInTheForest, #Mahanagar (#TheBigCity), #Jalsaghar (#TheMusicRoom), #Kapurush (#TheCoward), #GoopyGyneBaghaByne (#TheAdventuresOfGoopyAndBagha)...

As #AkiraKurosawa (yes, *that* #Kurosawa) said: "not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon."

A preemptive thanks to @theacademy & #am_cinematheque for the inevitable *big*-screen retrospective 🙏

PS. Anyone have a lead on #AranyerDinRatri? I *need* to rewatch it!

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#Satyajit #Ray #centenary #director #filmmaker #writer #composer #illustrator #author #Bengali #Indian

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