Table of Contents

SATYAJIT RAY: THE INNER EYE by Andrew Robinson Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations x Note on the Pronunciation and Spelling of Bengali xii Introduction: Getting to know Ray 1 A Bengali Banyan Tree: The Ray Family 2 Early Years 1921–40 3 Santiniketan and Tagore 1940–2 4 Commercial Artist and Critic 1943–50 5 The Making of Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) 1950–5 6 The Apu Trilogy 1955–9: Pather Panchali, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) 7 Comedies: The Philosopher’s Stone (Parash Pathar) 1958, Mahapurush (The Holy Man) 1964 8 The Music Room (Jalsaghar) 1958 9 The Goddess (Devi) 1960 10 Three Daughters (Teen Kanya) 1961 11 Kanchenjungha 1962 12 Abhijan (The Expedition) 1962 13 Mahanagar (The Big City) 1963 14 Charulata (The Lonely Wife) 1964 15 Kapurush (The Coward) 1965 16 Nayak (The Hero) 1966 17 Musicals: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne) 1969, The Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Dese) 1980 18 Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri) 1969 19 The Calcutta Trilogy: The Adversary (Pratidwandi) 1970, Company Limited (Seemabaddha) 1971, The Middle Man (Jana Aranya) 1975 20 Distant Thunder (Asani Sanket) 1973 21 Detective Films: Chiriakhana (The Zoo) 1967, The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella) 1974, The Elephant God (Joi Baba Felunath) 1978 22 The Chess Players (Shatranj ke Khilari) 1977 23 Two 1964, Pikoo 1980 24 Deliverance (Sadgati) 1981 25 The Home and the World (Ghare Baire) 1984 26 Documentaries: Sikkim 1971, Sukumar Ray 1987, Rabindranath Tagore 1961, Bala 1976, The Inner Eye 1972 27 Unmade Films: Ravi Shankar, The Mahabharata, A Passage to India, The Alien 28 Ray as Designer, Illustrator and Writer 29 ‘Some Aspects of His Craft’: Ray as Film-maker 30 ‘The Inner Eye’ 31 Koh-i-noor: An Enemy of the People (Ganasatru) 1989, Branches of the Tree (Sakha Prasakha) 1990, The Stranger (Agantuk) 1991, and the Legacy of Satyajit Ray Epilogue: A Century of Satyajit Ray, 1921-2021 A Conversation with Ray Glossary Filmography Notes Bibliography Index

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A career biography of the great Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray, updated with new previously unpublished material and an assessment of Ray's lasting legacy.

About the Author

Andrew Robinson is the author of more than two dozen books on a wide range of subjects. They include biographies of artists and scientists such as Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, a large-format photographic study, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), and The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic (2011). He has also written about Ray for major newspapers and magazines, such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, American Cinematographer and Sight and Sound.

Reviews

Extremely thorough, often perceptive and at times highly entertaining. It is good to have a sympathetic portrait of one of the giants of the cinema.
*Salman Rushdie, London Review of Books*

A signal salute to integrity.
*Lindsay Anderson, The Spectator*

Mr Robinson's close analysis of the warp and woof of Mr Ray's work makes an almost unanswerable case for the defense.
*The Economist*

A glorious book, a feast of research and insight.
*Films and Filming*

Andrew Robinson has managed to combine research with knowledge and analysis to produce what could become an enduring work of reference on the technique and narrative brilliance of the cinema of Ray.
*India Today*