Sandip Ray, Satyajit Ray's child portrays his dad's relationship with prestigious French producer Jean Renoir and how the French condition in Ray's life took off when he completed the process of making Pather Panchali (The Song of the Little Road)
Eminent French movie chief Jean Renoir shows up in Calcutta to cut out another film creation, his notable, The River. The period is 1950-51. Renoir will shoot the River while cruising across the Hooghly waterway. A tall, hopeful producer, with a standout realistic eye, gains of Renoir's appearance from similar companions like workmanship fashioner (later to become craftsmanship chief) Bansi Chandragupta. Bansi Chandragupta is planned to function as a collaborator with Renoir along with others from the Tollygunge entertainment world.
The tall man, Satyajit Ray, who was later to tower as a film perfect, on social event from Chandragupta that Renoir has checked in at the city's Great Eastern Hotel, goes across to the lodging, gets together with the Renoir and communicates his excitement to go with the French chief during the shoot. Renoir consents to take Ray along on The River's shooting plans.
Satyajit Ray's work-life, as was to unfurl from here on out, would be embellished with an articulated French association. "Father, as is generally recorded at this point, was working with the city-based British promoting organization, D.G. Keymer in the workmanship office. Renoir, as it shows up, was intrigued talking with father. In course of his cooperation with the French film ace, father had additionally broadcasted his fantasies about making Pather Panchali one day. In this manner, he promptly embraced father staying with him during The River's shooting," reflects Sandip, Satyajit Ray's child. "Given his responsibilities at Keymer, father chose to a great extent focus in on Renoir's weekend shooting plans," he adds.
Rayesque Satyajit Rays French Connection
Satyajit Ray with Chhabi Biswas
"During shooting, father would sporadically assist Renoir with perceptions on regular scenes in Bengal. Thus, Renoir would bring up the surface of specific districts. Being the child of (Impressionist) ace craftsman Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean Renoir was blessed with the eye of a craftsman. These associations with the expert French chief trapped to father," portrays Sandip. "I had gained pieces of these encounters from him (Satyajit Ray) a lot later."
Sandip goes onto grow, "The French condition in father's life took off further when he figured out how to complete Pather Panchali (The Song of the Little Road), regardless of the multitude of monetary obstacles and the film advanced toward the serious part of the Cannes Film Festival. Unfortunately, the primary screening of the film was late at night when basically the jury individuals were not really present. Fortunately, a writers group of the Sequence (movie) diary, drove by Lindsay Anderson, the popular British movie chief, were there at the theater to watch the film. Anderson and the other Sequence reporters squeezed upon the Cannes specialists to evaluate such a splendid celluloid creation for the whole jury. Thusly, Pather Panchali was evaluated a second time for the jury and left with the Best Human Document prize," Sandip radiates.
In Pather Panchali's wake, Satyajit Ray transcreated Aparajito (The Unvanquished), the second segment of the Trilogy. Aparajito neglected to round up the profit in the cinema world. This impacted Ray to settled on a 'melodic'. With the expectation that it would be somewhat more well known than the initial two dismal excursions. Accordingly, happened Jalsaghar (The Music Room). Be that as it may, even Jalshaghar turned out to be a dismal film.
"It didn't charge excessively well in the cinema world, by the same token. Indeed, even dad understood that Jashaghar had ended up being an intense film for film participants. For some odd reason, Jalshaghar achieved a religion status and continuing in France. Father was dumbfounded, as well, by this response from an abroad crowd," uncovers Sandip. "Incredibly, when the Video Home System (VHS) arose, the main Satyajit Ray film rendered to and promoted in the VHS design in France was Jalshaghar. The French had followed this up with VCDs and DVDs of Jalshaghar and LPs and CDs of film's unique soundtrack. Obviously, behind The Music Room, father's other film titles, including normally the Trilogy, were carried out in France. The Music Room, notwithstanding, ended up driving the way to the extent that the French went. One gathers, Jalshaghar is screened, sporadically even now, in certain performance centers in France," Sandip notices.
A few French vacationers, as per Sandip, have made a trip to Calcutta to visit, thus, the Nimtita Palace which highlighted in Jalsaghar. "Close to 10 years or so back, a travel service called me to say that a few French sightseers had shown up to get a direct perspective on the castle and on the off chance that I could help them," illuminates Sandip. "I advised this specialist to orchestrate the outing for these vacationers. A couple of days after the fact, this group of vacationers came around at our home to impart a record to me about the castle, which once had a place with the Raychaudhuri family, they had regularly visited and their impression. They were normally disheartened with the to some degree overview state of the castle as of now. Be that as it may, what perplexed them the most is the shortfall of the music room in the royal residence. I advised them that the whole jalsaghar was based on the sets. They were tangibly flabbergasted. That was the enchantment of Satyajit Ray, Bansi Chandragupta and Subroto Mitra, I normally was directed to tell them," says Sandip brilliantly. "Thus, one finds the French connection there once more," he adds.
Rayesque Satyajit Rays French Connection
Scene from Satyajit Ray's film Pikoo
Sandip proceeds to remark that even on his outings to France his extraordinary dad had detected his prevalence in that country. "France is presumably the one objective where essentially the whole array of father's movies, while perhaps not all, is accessible in DVD and Blue Ray design," he notices. With the US DVD significant Criterion venturing forward a couple of years back to get DVD privileges for Ray's movies, the expert's scope of films is filling in America. English stores are, obviously, are most likely close to France in offering a large number of the expert's motion pictures.
"In time, father was welcomed by the maker of France's Channel 3, Henri Fraise, to make a short film for the TV organization. Henri Fraise traveled from France to meet dad in Calcutta. Father was dazzled with Fraise and decided to coordinate his brief tale Pikoo's Diary for the channel," thinks back Sandip. "It was named Pikoo's Day for the French creation," Sandip says."
"Curiously, when Henri Fraise came back again during the shooting, he brought along the principal model of the Sony Walkman tape recorder for father as a gift normally. Father was enthused to the point that he had the earphones stuck in his ears meanwhile when he was not shooting or associated with some captivating work in his review. He was in every case seriously attracted to the most recent mechanical turn of events. In any case, expecting that this enthusiasm could influence his ears, specialists encouraged him to limit himself to a degree. At any rate, everything went off well and Pikoo was finished," describes Sandip.
As Sandip recalls, the expert had started composing Pikoo's Diary in a global air terminal and completed it on the trip back from abroad. Pikoo's plot had flourished to him in this abroad air terminal when the trip to Calcutta was postponed and Ray had snatched the open door, got himself a scratch pad and started writing this brief tale while he was holding back to load onto the plane. "This is pretty much clear from the notebook where Pikoo surfaced. It's totally not quite the same as father's standard artistic writing material which he regularly got from the city's well known Oxford Bookstore," highlights Sandip. Sandip promptly concurs that Pikoo is a profoundly serious scholarly creation. Sandip's transcending father generally composed keeping kids in his mindscape. Yet, Pikoo's Diary was a sharp flight. "Father, as well, normally understood this feature and sent it for distribution in the Durga Puja Special issue of the Ananda Bazar Patrika magazine which generally conveyed compositions for adults and grown-ups. It brings to the front the degree to which father had comprehended youngster brain science," Sandip sees on a serious note.
It should be referenced here that Satyajit Ray was improved with the Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, France's most elevated honor, by French president Francois Mitterand in 1987. Educated regarding Ray's poor heart condition, Mitterand flew the entire way to Calcutta to crown the maestro with grant.
Proceeding to harp on the artistic undertaking with the French, Sandip grows saying that maker Tosca Du Plantier would methodicallly monitor the maestro's work and was profoundly taken up by his movies. "As a matter of fact, when we headed out to Cannes in 1984-85 with Ghare Baire (Home and the World), Plantier facilitated a get-together in our distinction at a rambling loft disregarding the sea," recalls Sandip. "Father couldn't come to Cannes this time around in light of the coronary episode he had experienced in 1984.
"In time, Plantier informed us he was very enthusiastic about a co-creation with father. As a matter of fact, he had added that (renowned French entertainer and Plantier's companion and accomplice in Erato Films) Gerard Dupardieu was an immense admirer of father and his motion pictures. Both, as a matter of fact, traveled across to Calcutta during the shooting of Ganashatru (adjusted from Ibsen's Enemy of the People) and emphasized their extraordinary insight to leave on a co-creation with father. Father, obviously, openly let them know that he was not equipped with the cash ability to go into a co-creation. Plantier and Dupardieu guaranteed father that he shouldn't for even a moment mess around with the funds and that all courses of action would be assembled at the French end. Simply that the film would be created and delivered under the flag of Satyajit Ray
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