With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly “auntie,” Indir—vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist’s perpetual sense of discovery, Pather Panchali, which won an award for Best Human Document at Cannes, is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power.

Pather Panchali

Agantuk is Satyajit Ray’s last film and adapted from his short story Atithi, meaning guest. A family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be Anita’s long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels. The family is suspicious of the stranger, believing him to be an imposter with a financial scam to sell, only to find him leave unexpectedly, leaving behind some insightful observations.

Agantuk

The film is an adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People. Dr. Ashoke Gupta is the head of a town hospital. Gupta’s younger brother, Nisith, is the head of the committees running the hospital and a temple. Dr. Gupta is convinced that the holy water of the temple is contaminated due to faulty pipe -laying that causes an epidemic in town. He warns his brother Nisith. Nisith, the Industrialist and other town officials reject the idea that holy water might be the cause of the epidemic. Left with no alternative, Dr. Gupta organises a public meeting that is also sabotaged. And Dr. Gupta is proclaimed an enemy of the people.

Ganashatru

Ghare Baire is symbolic of a philosophical revolution in pre – independent Bengal. Ray brings out the pros & cons of the Swadeshi movement through the charismatic Swadeshi leader Sandip who fights for the cause by basing his parasite like existence on Nikhil, a liberal, who urges his wife, Bimala to explore and expand her understanding of the world beyond him. Nikhil quietly pushes Bimala towards discovering her world at the cost of witnessing her falling in love with another man. Ghare Baire is a story of the trials & tribulations of the human mind coming to terms with its own learning.

Ghare Baire

Like his films, Music of Satyajit Ray is a multilayered blending of Western sense and Indian sensibility. Ray has brought to his filmmaking a musical sense and skill,  that was as much a gift of his family as product of personal cultivation. But the most important thing is that his musical background did not make his films a pretext for his musical obsession; on the contrary he used music as an element in the organic structure of a film.

Music Of Satyajit Ray

The film deals with the world of Master film maker the late Satyajit Ray as seen by his photo-biographer Nemai Ghosh—through his lenses and unique perspective. The subject is the beginning and progress of Ghosh’s journey in photography in the era of classic, analogue medium with all its nuances and beauty. It is a 48-minute black-and-white docu-feature depicting 50 years of creative excellence.

Nemai Ghosh - A Ray of Light

A biographical film is on Satyajit Ray, one of India's most significant film makers, who also attained international acclaim through his cinematographic creations.

Satyajit Ray

The Inner Eye is a 1972 short documentary film made by Satyajit Ray on Benode Behari Mukherjee, a blind artist and a teacher from Visva-Bharati University, a university founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan.

The Inner Eye

The documentary was made to celebrate Tagore’s birth centenary in May 1961. Ray was conscious that he was making an official portrait of India’s celebrated poet and hence the film does not include any controversial aspects of Tagore’s life.

Rabindranath Tagore

One of the early documentaries on Satyajit Ray. Here world-renowned Indian film-maker narrates the process of his film making.

Creative Artist of India - Satyajit Ray

A young boy named Mukul claims to have lived in a golden fortress in a past life. On discovering some drawings by Mukul that represent scenes from the past, Dr. Hajra, a parapsychologist, believes that a fortress may be in Rajasthan and accompanies Mukul in search of the fortress. However, a newspaper story alerts a pair of crooks to the possibility of a hidden treasure and try to kidnap Mukul. The boy's father fears Mukul is in danger, and hires private detective Feluda and his cousin Topshe to recover the child.

Sonar Kella

This film is a sequel of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968) which brings back the musical duo of Goopy and Bagha being invited to the court of the Hirak Raja to perform at the kingdom's Jubilee celebrations. But coming to the kingdom they find out about the oppression and exploitation of the subjects by the King along with a scientist who builds him a brainwashing machine. Goopy and Bagha, join forces with an idealist schoolteacher Udayan and set out to correct the evils and liberate the people using their skills and sense of humour.

Hirok Rajar Deshe

A film comprising still photographs and readings from Sukumar Ray's writings, this film is a tribute by Satyajit Ray to his father Sukumar Ray, on the occasion of the celebration of his birth centenary.

Sukumar Ray

A combination of short clippings along with voice-overs by Satyajit Ray himself and actress-filmmaker Aparna Sen, this documentary follows Satyajit Ray's journey to show that Ray was more than just a filmmaker.

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