Satyajit Ray

Ray, Satyajit Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Royal Bengal Rahasya

  2011, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Royal Bengal Rahasya

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Some Maana

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Gorosthane Sabdhan

  2010, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Gorosthane Sabdhan

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Tintorettor Jishu

  2008, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Tintorettor Jishu

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Kailashey Kelenkari

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bombaiyer Bombete

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dr. Munshir Diary

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dr. Munshir Diary

  2000, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Ray

  1999, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Baksha Rahasya

  1996, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Baksha Rahasya

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Target

  1995, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Uttoran

  1994, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Uttoran

  1994, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The 64th Annual Academy Awards

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Honorary Award Recipient
• Play in Full Screen Agantuk

  1991, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Agantuk

  1991, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Goopy Bagha Phire Elo

  1991, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Agantuk

  1991, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Agantuk

  1991, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Agantuk

  1991, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Goopy Bagha Phire Elo

  1991, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Agantuk

  1991, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Shakha Proshakha

  1990, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Shakha Proshakha

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Shakha Proshakha

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Shakha Proshakha

  1990, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Ganashatru

  1989, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ganashatru

  1989, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Ganashatru

  1989, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Sukumar Ray

  1987, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Kissa Kathmandu Kaa

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sadgati

  1984, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Sadgati

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sadgati

  1984, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Ghare-Baire

  1984, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Sadgati

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ghare-Baire

  1984, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen The Music of Satyajit Ray

  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ghare-Baire

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Phatik Chand

  1983, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Phatik Chand

  1983, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Phatik Chand

  1983, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Satyajit Ray

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Pikoor Diary

  1981, role: writer

Famous quotes by Satyajit Ray:

"I learnt framing by watching him work on the camera. He would always encourage me and now I have a collection of 90,000 photos of Ray."

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."

"I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time."

"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."

"It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical."

"There's always some room for improvisation."

"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."

"At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music."

"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."

"You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan."

"Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule."

"What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure."

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical."

"I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation."

"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."

"My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population."

"I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it."

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

"Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years."

Satyajit Ray