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Satyajit Ray
Writer 1921 - 1992

Satyajit Ray

Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a... Read full bio →

Filmography

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Hatyapuri

Hatyapuri

Sandip Ray 2022 1h 56m

Pradosh Chandra Mitter(Feluda) visits Puri for a vacation but gets involved in investigating a murder that took place in the coastal town during his stay.

Bombaiyer Bombatay

Bombaiyer Bombatay

Sandip Ray 2003 1h 55m

Satyajit Ray's creation Feluda travels to Mumbai with his nephew Topshe to witness a film being made on a story written by their author-friend Lalmohan Ganguly under his pen-name Jatayu. Trouble follows them.

Baksha Rahasya

Baksha Rahasya

Sandip Ray 1996 1h 37m

Famous Bengali private investigator Pradosh C. Mitter (Feluda) is hired by wealthy businessman Dinnanath Lahiri. His suitcase has been accidentally exchanged with someone on the Kalka Mail. Inside it is a valuable manuscript written by Shambucharan Bose.

Goopy Bagha Phire Elo

Goopy Bagha Phire Elo

Sandip Ray 1992 1h 59m

The last and final sequal of Goopi-Bagha series as they invited at a palace of a king and their various attitudes as they are trapped by a astrologer cum imposter.

Agantuk

Agantuk

Satyajit Ray 1991 1h 54m 8.0

A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels.

Ganashatru

Ganashatru

Satyajit Ray 1990 1h 39m

Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis.

Ghare-Baire

Ghare-Baire

Satyajit Ray 1984 2h 20m 8.0

A landowner's wife emerges from seclusion through education, defying social norms. Her newfound freedom leads to political awakening when her husband's old friend brings revolutionary ideas to their door.

Heerak Rajar Deshe

Heerak Rajar Deshe

Satyajit Ray 1980 1h 58m

The musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.

Joi Baba Felunath

Joi Baba Felunath

Satyajit Ray 1979 2h

This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a holiday. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to start investigation.

Shatranj Ke Khilari

Shatranj Ke Khilari

Satyajit Ray 1977 2h 9m 10.0

In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation.

Jana Aranya

Jana Aranya

Satyajit Ray 1976 2h 11m

A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.

Sonar Kella

Sonar Kella

Satyajit Ray 1974 2h 15m

A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.

Ashani Sanke

Ashani Sanke

Satyajit Ray 1973 1h 41m 10.0

As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.

Seemabaddha

Seemabaddha

Satyajit Ray 1971 1h 50m

Chatterji is an ambitious and self-made young man who becomes the director of the company he works for.

Pratidwandi

Pratidwandi

Satyajit Ray 1971 1h 50m 10.0

The movie has its backdrop as the 1970's Calcutta, at the time when the unemployment problem was at its peak, and how the young jobless generation vented out their anger on the economic and political system.

Baksa Badal

Baksa Badal

Nityananda Datta 1970 1h 46m

The luggage of Dr. Pratul and Minu get swapped during a train journey. When Dr. Pratul, who is a psychiatrist, looks into the luggage, he develops a keen interest in knowing more about Minu.

Aranyer Din Ratri

Aranyer Din Ratri

Satyajit Ray 1970 1h 57m 9.0

Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply.

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

Satyajit Ray 1969 2h 9m

Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne are banished from their respective villages for being bad musicians. However, with their skills, they succeed in pleasing the king of ghosts who grants them three boons. How will they succeed in preventing the war between Halla and Shundi which is looming large?

Nayak

Nayak

Satyajit Ray 1966 1h 58m 7.5

A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.

Mahapurush

Mahapurush

Satyajit Ray 1965 1h 5m 7.0

A wandering baba initiates a widower layer and his youngest daughter, irritating her boyfriend Satya and the ever-skeptical Nibaran.

Kapurush

Kapurush

Satyajit Ray 1965 1h 10m 9.0

Amitabha Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a Calcutta based scriptwriter who is driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative.

Charulata

Charulata

Satyajit Ray 1964 1h 57m 9.0

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses.

Mahanagar

Mahanagar

Satyajit Ray 1963 2h 16m 9.0

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

Kanchenjungha

Kanchenjungha

Satyajit Ray 1962 1h 42m

Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolonial India while celebrating the hopes of a society in transition.

Abhijaan

Abhijaan

Satyajit Ray 1962 2h 26m 7.0

Narsingh's taxi driving licence is revoked after he is caught driving dangerously. When he tries to set up a new business, he finds himself involved with a shady businessman.

Teen Kanya

Teen Kanya

Satyajit Ray 1961 2h 53m 10.0

Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural tale about a woman obsessed with the jewels her husband buys for her.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Satyajit Ray 1961 54m

Docudrama about the life of Rabindranath Tagore, Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art, becoming in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Devi

Devi

Satyajit Ray 1960 1h 39m 8.0

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.

Apur Sansar

Apur Sansar

Satyajit Ray 1959 1h 45m 8.5

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.

Jalsaghar

Jalsaghar

Satyajit Ray 1958 1h 40m 8.4

The Music Room is a famous Bengali film from the great Satyajit Ray from 1958 about a improvised land owner and his love for music.

Aparajito

Aparajito

Satyajit Ray 1956 1h 50m 7.8

The Unvanquished is the second part of the Bangladesh Apu film series about a boy named Apu who gets a scholarship to study at a College in Calcutta. His mother is alone and torn between wanting him to be successful and not wanting him to leave her alone.

Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray 1955 2h 5m 8.7

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir.

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