Satyajit Ray

Jalsagar Directed by Satyajit Ray: A little more about him (courtesy google) Satyajit Ray\'s ancestry can be traced back for at least ten generations.[2] Ray\'s grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray was a writer, illustrator, philosopher, publisher, amateur astronomer and a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, a religious and social movement in nineteenth century Bengal. Sukumar Ray, Upendrakishore\'s son, was a pioneering Bengali writer of nonsense rhyme and children\'s literature, an illustrator and a critic. Ray was born to Sukumar and Suprabha Ray in Kolkata. Sukumar Ray died when Satyajit was barely three, and the family survived on Suprabha Ray\'s meager income. Ray studied economics at Presidency College in Kolkata, though his interest was always in fine arts. In 1940, his mother insisted that he study at the Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, founded by Rabindranath Tagore. Ray was reluctant due to his love of Kolkata, and due to the general low opinion of the intellectual ...more