I must confess to not watching very much cinema from India. I’ve never been a big fan of Bollywood; however I hope to make some small amends by highlighting Bengali director Satjajit Ray’s brilliant Apu Trilogy: Panther Panchali (1955), Aparjito (1956) and Apu Sarvar (The World of Apu) (1959). With original music by a then almost unknown Ravi Shankar, these films are a story of the childhood, education, youth and early manhood of Apu in the early twentieth century.
A Ray In Your Home
An artist and a filmmaker celebrate Satyajit Ray’s birth centenary in a quiet way and three stalwarts make a very watchable song to mark Hanuman Jayanti
Sathya Saran 04 May 2021, Last Updated at 12:17 pm Sathya Saran 2021-05-04T22:40:38+05:30 A Ray In Your Home outlookindia.com 2021-05-05T12:17:09+05:30
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Bag of Bong creates handmade items that work on creating “nostalgia through art”.
Her tribute to Satyajit Ray is in the form of wall plates, coasters, all of which add colour and a touch of whimsy to any home. Using acrylic paint on clay or ceramic, she has reinterpreted characters, scenes from Ray’s films. The material is then baked, “double baked for food plates, single for wall plates”, then given a coat of varnish to fix the colours more firmly. “My plates are like posters,” the artist said, “but they are not copies but designs that answer my thought on how I would have made them