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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-
paterfamilias of modern Bengali literature but I have felt a particular kinship with you.
Perhaps this was because I was deeply attracted to your work at a time when you were living. Somehow that made you a more intimate presence.
Of course, there is so much to like about you. A world-class filmmaker, juvenile story-teller, composer, typographer, illustrator, graphic artist, you had a keen intellect and an avid curiosity, with a formidable command of both English and Bengali you were a true renaissance man.
There was another parochial reason. I took particular delight in the fact that your ancestral home was in East Bengal. Your grandfather Upendrakishore Roychowdhury, juvenile storyteller extraordinaire, was from Mymensingh, the land of the storied folk treasury of
Kanika Majumdar in Teen Kanya (1961) | Satyajit Ray Productions
Satyajit Ray’s birth centenary will be celebrated on multiple fronts. Some will remember his movies, others his delightful stories for youngsters and adults, and yet other his film scores. Ray began composing his own music with
Teen Kanya
Shakespeare Wallah (1965) and
Baksha Badal (1970). Contemporary composer Alokananda Dasgupta tells
Scroll.in about what made Ray’s music unique and what can we learn from it today.
Satyajit Ray didn’t only focus on just the background score. He also created theme tracks.
My introduction to films and background score happened via Satyajit Ray. I didn’t understand what I watched or heard, but I picked up the music and the dialogue which I would discuss with friends and cousins.