Search Website mirrors making of Satyajit Ray’s Goopi Gyne Bagha Byne The site is presenting the ‘kheror khata’ in which the director kept detailed notes covering all aspects of the film, from costume sketches to musical notes and dialogues
Between the covers of two traditional red cloth-bound notebooks is enclosed the creative process that resulted in one of Satyajit Ray’s landmark films,
Goopi Gyne Bagha Byne.
In Ray’s centenary year, a bilingual website, exploreray.org, is presenting the
kheror khata in which he kept detailed notes covering all aspects of the film, from costume sketches to musical notes and dialogues. “The first khata has 733 pages of the story line, sketches of the characters and elements of the sets, the shooting script and the story board, all of which he developed over time. The second book has about 200 pages on the dance of the ghosts and post-