Satyajit Ray: A secret bond with children
On the Birth Centenary Year of Satyajit Ray, the maestro’s work will be revisited again and again by admirers and critics. Among others, an area worth exploring is how the creative genius portrayed, and treated, children in his films and stories, writes Shoma A. Chatterji
Who can ever forget that beautiful B&W visual of little Apu and his sari-clad sister Durga running through the white kaash flowering fields to see the train? Or, Apu inspecting his proud image in a mirror sporting a hand-made paper crown and a moustache, in Satyajit Ray’s debut film Pather Panchali?