Celebrating 100 years of Satyajit Ray: The Man Who Taught People About Love by Vinay Pathak - Part 1
Hindustan Times | ByVinay Pathak
Jun 14, 2020 01:20 AM IST
Legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray has provided entertainment to audiences and inspiration to budding artists in equal measure
For most people, Satyajit Ray is synonymous with Pather Panchali, but for me, his best film was always Charulata (The Lonely Wife), a masterpiece based on Rabindranath Tagore’s Nashtanirh(The Broken Nest).
With Charulata, legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray became a wizard for Vinay Pathak who magically knew how his heart beats when it is in the grips of the pangs of love
When ray’s fictional detective character appeared on TV, I wondered: could this man do everything? Should I not watch any other filmmaker? I am not even Bengali!
Stills from Charulata (1964), where Madhabi Mukherjee essays the lead role (Photos courtesy: @satyajitray.org)