The Bengali films Pratidwandi, Seemabaddha and Jana Aranya directed by the Oscar winning Satyajit Ray are known as the trilogy of what Indian city to which he was strongly associated?
"was never serious about it and he had never thought of making a Feluda film. As of September 2016, according to media reports, director Shoojit Sircar was trying to acquire the rights to ""Sonar Kella"". Feluda in film This is a list of Feluda films produced by Indian and West Bengal film studios by year to the present. The series is about a fictional Indian Bengali hero who is a detective by profession and lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. These TV series and Telefilms are not part of the original Feluda film series which was directed by Satyajit Ray"
"own film industry: Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam. The Hindi/Urdu film industry, based in Mumbai, formerly ""Bombay"", is called Bollywood (a melding of Hollywood and Bombay). Similar neologisms have been coined for the Kannada (Karnataka State) film industry (Sandalwood) based on Karnataka being known for Sandalwood, Tamil film industry (Kollywood, from the Kodambakkam district of Chennai) and the Telugu film industry (Tollywood). Tollygunge is a metonym for the Bengali film industry, long centered in the Tollygunge district of Kolkata. The Bengali language industry is notable as having nurtured the director Satyajit Ray, an internationally renowned filmmaker and a winner"
"City (Hyderabad) Innovative Film city (Bengaluru),Prayag Film City (Kolkata) and several theme parks, amusement parks, museum not only in India but also in countries like Singapore etc. Nitish Roy Nitish Roy is an Indian film art director, production designer, and costume designer in Hindi cinema and a Bengali Film Director, who is also known for his work with art cinema directors, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and Govind Nihlani, Hindi mainstream cinema, directors like Rajkumar Santoshi, as well as international directors like Mira Nair and Gurinder Chadha. His work (production design, art direction) for Oscar winning Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator fetched international"
"where most of the state's film studios are located. Its long tradition of art films includes globally acclaimed film directors such as Academy Award-winning director Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, and contemporary directors such as Aparna Sen, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Bengali literature was modernised through the works of authors such as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Coupled with social reforms led by Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, and others, this constituted a major part"
"ranges from Rs.4 to Rs.15, depending on the distance covered. While Mumbai is the capital of commercial cinemas in India, Kolkata is the house of art-films. Stalwarts like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen are the pride of Kolkata. The biggest event of Indian cinema was the release of ""Pather Panchali"" in 1955 made by Satyajit Ray based on a novel of Bibhutibhusan Banerjee. This film connected Indian film to the rest of the world. The movie was acclaimed throughout the world specially in the Western world as a symbol of undying human spirit. Presently, Aparna Sen, Budhdhadeb Dasgupta, Gautam"
"Buddhadeb Guha, Mahashweta Devi, Samaresh Majumdar, Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Dinesh Das, Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Sunil Gangopadhyay and Joy Goswami among others are well-known writers of the 20th century. Among other types of theater, West Bengal has a tradition of folk drama known as ""jatra"". Kolkata is the home of the Bengali cinema industry, dubbed ""Tollywood"" for Tollygunj, where most of the state's film studios are located. Its long tradition of art films includes globally acclaimed film directors such as Academy Award-winning director Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, and contemporary directors such as Aparna Sen, Buddhadeb"
"most well known to Bengalis. The acclaimed film director Satyajit Ray based his film ""Charulata"" (""The Lonely Wife"") on ""Nastanirh"" (""The Broken Nest""). This famous story has an autobiographical element to it, modelled to some extent on the relationship between Tagore and his sister-in-law, Kadambari Devi. Ray has also made memorable films of other stories from ""Galpaguchchha"", including ""Samapti"", ""Postmaster"" and ""Monihara"", bundling them together as ""Teen Kanya"" (""Three Daughters""). ""Atithi"" is another poignantly lyrical Tagore story which was made into a film of the same name by another noted Indian film director Tapan Sinha. Tarapada, a young Brahmin boy,"
"film ""Calcutta 71"" and Sen's Calcutta Trilogy its sequel in 1973, ""Padatik"", Richard Attenborough's 1982 Academy Award winning film ""Gandhi"", Goutam Ghose's 1984 Hindi film ""Paar"", Raj Kapoor's ""Ram Teri Ganga Maili"" in 1985, Nicolas Klotz's ""The Bengali Night"" in 1988, Roland Joffé's English language film ""City of Joy"" in 1992, Florian Gallenberger's Bengali film ""Shadows of Time"" in 2004, Mani Ratnam's Bollywood film ""Yuva"" in 2004, Pradeep Sarkar's 2005 Bollywood film ""Parineeta"", Subhrajit Mitra's 2008 Bengali film """", Mira Nair's 2006 film ""The Namesake"", Blessy's 2008 Malayalam Film ""Calcutta News"", Surya Sivakumar's 2009 Tamil film ""Aadhavan"", Imtiaz Ali's 2009"
"from a country that is known for its cultural richness and artistic excellence. Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (""Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae""; born 19 January 1935) is an Indian film and stage actor and poet. He is best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee is also the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's"
"Bandyopadhyay, ""Kagtarua"" and ""Dui Bondhu"" by Satyajit Ray Chaar (film) Chaar (English: Four) is an Indian Bengali anthology film, directed by Sandip Ray and produced by Shrikant Mohta, Mahendra Soni and Nispal Singh under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films. It based on four stories by different writers- ""Bateswarer Abodan"" by Parasuram, ""Porikkha"" by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, ""Kagtarua"" and ""Dui Bondhu"" by Satyajit Ray. The film features Saswata Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee, Koel Mallick, Paran Bandopadhyay in the lead roles, and Sreelekha Mitra, Sudipta Chakraborty, Pijush Ganguly in the supporting roles. Chaar film contains four short stories by different"
"Sudhendu Roy Sudhendu Roy (1921–1999) was a noted Indian film director, art director and production designer in Hindi cinema, most known for his realistic art direction in auteur Bimal Roy's films, like ""Sujata"" (1959), ""Madhumati"" (1959) and ""Bandini"" (1963), and glitzy work in films Subhash Ghai's ""Karz"" (1980) and ""Karma"" (1986) to Yash Chopra's ""Silsila"" (1981), ""Chandni"" (1989) and ""Lamhe"" (1991). He won the Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction thrice for, ""Madhumati"" (1959), ""Mere Mehboob"" (1964) and ""Sagina"" (1975). He also directed Hindi films like ""Uphaar"" (1971) and ""Saudagar"" (1973), both of which were India's official entry to the"
"middle class in films like Pratidwandi and Jana Aranya set during the period of the naxalite movement in Bengal. Advocates of socialism said that Ray was not ""committed"" to the cause of the nation's downtrodden classes; some critics accused him of glorifying poverty in ""Pather Panchali"" and ""Ashani Sanket"" (Distant Thunder) through lyricism and aesthetics. They said he provided no solution to conflicts in the stories, and was unable to overcome his bourgeois background. During the naxalite movements in the 1970s, agitators once came close to causing physical harm to his son, Sandip. Early in 1980, Ray was criticised by"
"destination for Bollywood and Bengali cinema. Satyajit Ray shot his film ""Kanchenjungha"" (1962) here, and his Feluda series story, ""Darjeeling Jomjomaat"", was also set in the town. Bollywood movies such as ""Aradhana"" (1969), ""Main Hoon Na"" (2004), Parineeta (2005) and more recently ""Barfi!"" (2012) have been filmed here. Tourist inflow into Darjeeling had been affected by the political instability in the region, and agitations in the 1980s and 2000s hit the tourism industry hard. However, since 2012, Darjeeling has once again witnessed a steady inflow of both domestic and international tourists. Presently, around 50,000 foreign and 500,000 domestic tourists visit"
"Paran Bandopadhyay Paran Bandopadhyay (alternate spelling Paran Bandyopadhyay) or Paran Banerjee is an Indian Bengali film, television and stage actor based in Kolkata. He gained popularity with his works with notable Bengali film director Sandip Ray, the son of notable filmmaker and author Satyajit Ray. Bandopadhyay has roots in Jessore, Bangladesh. His mother died when he was young and his father left home. After that he was brought up by his paternal aunt in Dum Dum, Kolkata. He graduated from the City College at the University of Calcutta. In his childhood, Bandopadhyay participated in one-act plays in their neighborhood. He"
"including ""Doctor"", ""Sathyabhama"", ""Subaida"", ""Thalirukal"", ""Vilakkapatta Bandhangal"" and ""Jalakannyaka"". He was a popular Malayalam movie director during 1980s. He hails from Poojapura in Thiruvananthapuram. He was born on November 1926 to Mrithyunjaya Ayyar and Balambal. He died on March 9, 2008 at the Sree Ramachandra Hospital in Chennai, following hearty diseases. He was 81 and is survived by wife Seethamani and only son, Karthik. M. S. Mani (editor) M. S. Mani was an Indian film director and editor in Malayalam movies. He won National award twice in 1990 and 1992 for editing the films ""Nakhashatangal"" and ""Iyyer The Great"" and"
"more elite and artistically inclined than the usual musical cinema fare in India. During this period, Bengali cinema enjoyed a large, even disproportionate, representation in Indian cinema. They produced directors like Satyajit Ray, who was an Academy Honorary Award winner, and the recipient of India's and France's greatest civilian honours, the Bharat Ratna and Legion of Honor respectively, and Mrinal Sen, who is the recipient of the French distinction of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and the Russian Order of Friendship. Other prominent film makers in the Bengali film industry at the time included Satyajit Ray and"
"of the Satyajit Ray's debut film ""Pather Panchali"" was done at Boral, then a small village on the outskirts of Kolkata, now a locality of Sonarpur. A decade later, Ray again shot a scene of ""Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne"" in the dense bamboo groves near a local pond. The city also includes the localities of Malancha, Kodalia , Subhashgram, Boral, Nandan, Srirampur, New Garia, Kamalgazi, Chak Garia, Techno City, Panchpota, Model Town, Tentulberia, East Tentulberia, Ramgarh, Briji, Sreenagar, Panchasayar, Balia, Fartabad, Ramchandrapur, Bidyadharpur, Kalikapur, Kheadaha, Gangajoara, Garia, Hadia etc. Before the State Highway–1 (also known as E.M Bypass) project Rajpur"
"of his house in Benaras is painted with figures of two swordsmen. During the making of the movie, """"Joi Baba Felunath"""", this swordsmen were painted by Satyajit Ray himself. Ghoshal is a Mumbai-based popular Hindi film director hailing from Kolkata. His original home in Kolkata is in the neighbourhood of Lalmohonbabu's in northern Kolkata's Garpar. He has directed two films based on Lalmohonbabu's stories. During the shooting of both these films, dangerous events took place, resulting in arrest of a producer in one film (""Bombaiyer Bombete"") and arrest of an actor in another film (""Darjeeling Jamjomat""). In the Feluda series"
"the most famous was ""The Apu Trilogy"" (1955–1959) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg, Carlos Saura, Jean-Luc Godard, Isao Takahata, Gregory Nava, Ira Sachs, Wes Anderson and Danny Boyle being influenced by his cinematic style. According to Michael Sragow of ""The Atlantic Monthly"", the ""youthful coming-of-age dramas that have flooded art houses since the mid-fifties owe a tremendous debt to the Apu trilogy"". Subrata Mitra's cinematographic technique of bounce lighting also"
"John Abraham, Padmarajan, Bharathan, T. V. Chandran and Shaji N. Karun. Gopalakrishnan, who is often considered to be Satyajit Ray's spiritual heir, directed some of his most acclaimed films during this period, including ""Elippathayam"" (1981) which won the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival, as well as ""Mathilukal"" (1989) which won major prizes at the Venice Film Festival. Shaji N. Karun's debut film ""Piravi"" (1989) won the Camera d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, while his second film ""Swaham"" (1994) was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. His third film ""Vanaprastham"" (1999)"
"philosophies with Indian tradition. Kolkata is also noted for its revolutionary history, ranging from the Indian struggle for independence to the leftist Naxalite and trade-union movements. Labelled the ""Cultural Capital of India"", ""The City of Processions"", ""The City of Palaces"", and the ""City of Joy"", Kolkata has also been home to prominent people such as, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Rabindranath Tagore, Keshub Chandra Sen, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita, Sri Aurobindo, Subhas Chandra Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Paramahansa Yogananda, Anil Kumar Gain, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Jibanananda Das,"
"Satyajit Ray, and his 1980 book ""The Cinema of Satyajit Ray"" remains one of the definitive works on Ray. In 2004 Chidananada Das Gupta was honoured at the Osian Film Festival, 2004, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for writing on cinema. Das Gupta directed as many as seven films, namely ""The Stuff of Steel"" (1969), ""The Dance of Shiva"" (1968), ""Portrait of a City"" (1961), ""Amodini"" (1994), ""Zaroorat Ki Purti"" (1979), ""Rakhto"" (1973) and ""Bilet Pherat"" (1972) Of these he composed only two. These are ""Bilet Pherat"" and ""Amodini"", the latter starring both his daughter Aparna Sen and his granddaughter"
"famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote a detective novel and later turned it into a film − ""Sonar Kella"" (The Golden Fortress) which was based on this fort. This is a living fort and about a quarter of city's population still live inside the fort. The main attractions inside the fort are: Raj Mahal (Royal palace), Jain temples and the Laxminath temple. Jaisalmer has been enriched by its Jain community, which has adorned the city with beautiful temples, notably the temples dedicated to the 16th Tirthankara, Shantinath, and 23rd Tirthankara, Parshvanath. There are seven Jain temples in total which"
"several prominent awards. The director went on to win the National Award for Best Debut Film. ""Parineeta"" was showcased at prominent international film festivals. The story takes place in Kolkata. As the credits roll, scenes from erstwhile Calcutta are displayed along with the narrator's (Amitabh Bachchan) introduction of the era. The narration focuses on the night of the marriage of Shekhar and Gayatri Tantiya, a rich industrialist's daughter. The audience is introduced to Naveen Roy as Shekhar's father while we see Shekhar grooming himself for the occasion. While he is doing so, images of Lalita calling him by his name"
"Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (""Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae""; born 19 January 1935) is an Indian film and stage actor and poet. He is best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee is also the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists. He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke"
"Bansi Chandragupta Bansi Chandragupta (1924–1981) was an Indian art director and production designer, regarded among the greatest of art directors of Indian film industry. He won Filmfare Best Art Direction Award thrice, for ""Seema"" in 1972, for ""Do Jhoot"" in 1976 and for ""Chakra"" in 1982. He was awarded Evening Standard British Film Award posthumously for ""best technical/artistic achievement"" in 1983. He was born in 1924 in Sialkot, Punjab, British India and died on 27 June 1981 in Brookhaven, New York, United States. Chandragupta is most well known as art director/production designer of movies directed by Satyajit Ray. He also"
"Design for """" (2003). His son Krishnendu runs an animation studio, and one daughter, Sumona, lives in Canada. Sudhendu Roy Sudhendu Roy (1921–1999) was a noted Indian film director, art director and production designer in Hindi cinema, most known for his realistic art direction in auteur Bimal Roy's films, like ""Sujata"" (1959), ""Madhumati"" (1959) and ""Bandini"" (1963), and glitzy work in films Subhash Ghai's ""Karz"" (1980) and ""Karma"" (1986) to Yash Chopra's ""Silsila"" (1981), ""Chandni"" (1989) and ""Lamhe"" (1991). He won the Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction thrice for, ""Madhumati"" (1959), ""Mere Mehboob"" (1964) and ""Sagina"" (1975). He also"
"is derived from that name. The Bengali film industry is well known for its art films, and has produced acclaimed directors like Satyajit Ray who is widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century, Mrinal Sen whose films were known for its artistic depiction of social reality, Tapan Sinha who was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time, and Ritwik Ghatak. Some contemporary directors include veterans such as Buddhadev Dasgupta, Tarun Majumdar, Goutam Ghose, Aparna Sen, and Rituparno Ghosh, and a newer pool of directors such as Kaushik Ganguly and Srijit Mukherji."
"to comical; an exhibition his posters was held at British Film Institute in 2013. In 2016, during the shooting of the film Double Feluda, Satyajit's only son, Sandip Ray, filmed his father's famous library. The Academy Film Archive preserved a number of Satyajit Ray's films, Abhijan in 2001, Aparajito in 1996, Apur Sansar in 1996, Charulata in 1996, Devi in 1996, Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in 2003, Jalsaghar in 1996, Jana Aranya in 1996, Joi Baba Felunath in 2007, Kapurush in 2005, Mahanagar in 1996, Mahapurush in 2005, Nayak in 2004, Parash Pathar in 2007, Pather Panchali in 1996, Seemabaddha"
"acted in several movies like ""Tolly Lights"", ""Antaheen"", and ""Laptop"". He recently played the role of the landlord father of Sonakshi Sinha in the Hindi Film ""Lootera"". Chanda is also a writer and advertising professional. He has written several books like ""Coke"", a Bengali thriller. Barun Chanda Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's ""Seemabaddha"". Chanda was born at Dhaka in present day Bangladesh, but came to Kolkata at an early age to pursue higher education. Chanda acted in the"
"Banabehari Shaw. Unfortunately after the lease lapsed, the studio was demolished. The company currently maintains a studio in the Salt Lake neighbourhood of Kolkata, and a post-production facility in Tollygunj. Aurora was involved in the distribution and/or production of several acclaimed films. The company bought Pramathesh Barua's production company (Barua Pictures), and produced two films starring Barua, ""Pujari"" and ""Niyoti"". Aurora was the distributor for Satyajit Ray's debut film ""Pather Panchali"" (1955); it was the distributor for Ray's ""Parash Pathar"" (1958) and producer for ""Jalsaghar"" (1958). The company partially financed ""Aparajito"" (1956), the second instalment of Rays' ""Apu Trilogy"". Noted"
"New Theatres in Kolkata, however Kolkata based film industry was now on the decline, thus Roy shifted base to Bombay (now Mumbai) along with his team, which included Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Nabendu Ghosh, Asit Sen, Bose and later Salil Chaudhury, and by 1952 he has restarted the second phase of his career with ""Maa"" (1952) for Bombay Talkies. Thereafter Bose collaborated with Roy in all his subsequent films, ""Parineeta"" (1953, The Fiancee), adaptation of Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel by the same name, in same year came the neo-realism classic, ""Do Bigha Zamin"" (1953), which not only won the Filmfare Best Movie"
"of daylight on sets. He pioneered the technique while filming ""Aparajito"" (1956), the second part of the trilogy. Ray pioneered other effects such as the photo-negative flashbacks and X-ray digressions in ""Pratidwandi"" (1972). During the 1960s, Indira Gandhi's intervention during her reign as the Information and Broadcasting Minister of India supported production of off-beat cinematic by FFC. Commercial Hindi cinema began thriving, including acclaimed films ""Pyaasa"" (1957) and ""Kaagaz Ke Phool"" (1959, Guru Dutt) ""Awaara"" (1951) and ""Shree 420"" (1955, Raj Kapoor). These films expressed social themes mainly dealing with working-class urban life in India; ""Awaara"" presented the city as"