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Ray, a hundred years on: This film auteur gave us a spectacular oeuvre which distilled contemporary times April 28, 2021, 9:17 PM IST
The writer is a historian and writer. She edits the journal South Asian History and Culture. She is the author of Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation. Her first fiction is Menoka has Hanged Herself. LESS. MORE
In a recent interview marking the 100th birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, three days from today, his son Sandip Ray stated that if his father was alive perhaps he would have remade the political satire Hirak Rajar Deshe, the sequel to his magical Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. Hirak Rajar Deshe was made shortly after the state of Emergency of the 1970s, and the implications of the Ray scion’s statement are hard to miss. Yet, for long, Ray was critiqued by members of the leftist avant-garde for not being political enough, for not using his cinema more directly to address the raging political issues of the day.