Movie & Music Director: Satyajit Ray

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ajooni

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Posted: 19 years ago

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thanks for starting this thread(and many like this) 😊 gives me an excuse to spend time in this forum...still some articles left to read...i will get to them.

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amohanta

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Posted: 19 years ago

#52

Kudos for starting this thread. Wonderful. Thanks

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SHUBHAM SENGUPTA

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Posted: 19 years ago

#53

SATYAJIT RAY is the BEST !!!!

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SHUBHAM SENGUPTA

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Posted: 19 years ago

#54

GOOPI GYNE BAGHA BYNE ..HIROK RAJAR DESHE ..and JOI BABA FELUNATH are my favourites

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Bob Chowdhury

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Posted: 19 years ago

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India's emergent art cinema, led by the Bengali directors Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak reacted against such spectacle. Satyajit Ray's world-famous debut, Pather Panchali (1955), is based on many of the themes that engaged contemporary popular film-makers of the time, such as loss of social status, economic injustice, uprootment, but sets them within a naturalistic, realist frame which put a special value on the Bengali countryside, locating it as a place of nostalgia, to which the urban and individualist sensibility of its protagonist, Apu, looked with longing.

In Ray's later work on urban middle-class existence, Mahanagar/Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), Seemabadha/Company Limited (1971), Pratidwandi/The Protagonist (1970), and Jana Aranya/The Middleman (1975), his rational, humanist vision is at the same time at home in the city, and repulsed by it; overarching estrangement is relayed through images of futile job interviews, cynical corporate schemes, murky deals in respectable cafes. Wedded to the traditions of the nineteenth-century intelligentsia, he finds society wanting, vilifies it for its ignorance and corruption, and oversees the malignant terrain below with a lofty disdain. Ray's women, such as the mother, Sarbojaya of Pather Panchali, the tomboy Aparna Sen of Samapti/TheEnd(1961), Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata and Mahanagar, and Kaberi Bose in Aranyer din Ratri, are splendidly drawn portraits in the realist tradition.

In contrast to Ray, his contemporaries Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak set out to expose the dark underside of India's lower middle-class and unemployed. Sen, after a phase of uneven, didactic political cinema at the height of the Maoist-inspired Naxalite movement of the early 1970s - marked by the trilogy Interview(1971), Calcutta 71(1972) and Padatik/The Guerrilla Fighter (1973) - made two films, Akaler Sandhane/Search of Famine (1980) and Khandar/Ruins (1983), about film-making itself, exploring its inherent distance and disengagement, and the problems entailed in trying to record "reality".

Perhaps the most outstanding figure of this generation, fulfilling the potential of the radical cultural initiatives of the IPTA, was the great Ritwik Ghatak. Disruption, the problems of locating oneself in a new environment, and the indignities and oppression of common people are the recurrent themes of this poet of Partition, who lamented the division of Bengal in 1947. Disharmony and discontinuity could be said to be the hallmark of Nagarik/Citizen (1952) and Meghe Dhaka Tara/Cloud-capped Star (1960), where studio sets of street corners mingle uneasily with live-action shots of Calcutta. There is something deliberately jarring about the rhythms of editing, the use of sound, and the compositions, as if the director refuses to allow us to settle into a comfortable, familiar frame of viewing. In Aajantrik/Man and Machine (1958) and Subarnarekha (1952, released 1965) he juxtaposes the displaced and transient urban figure with tribal peoples; placing the human figure at the edge of the frame, dwarfed by majestic nature.

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Barnali

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Posted: 19 years ago

#56

Here r music tracks frm albums of different satayajit Ray's films.

1. Abhijaan

The night journey
Gulabi remembers
Narsingh theme

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104807

2. Ashani Sanket

gangacharan theme
Aftermath of the rape
playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104808

3. Baksha Badal

Title music
montage
Playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104809

4. Charulata

Charu theme
Charu recalls her childhood
Bhupati's grief
Bhupati's realisations
amal leaves

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104810

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104811

5. Gharey Bairey

Title music
Bimala out of seclusion
The uprising
"queen bee"
nikhilesh theme

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104812

6. Gopy Gyne Bagha Byne

Entry of halla king
the prisoners

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104813

7. Kanchenjunga

Title music
The mist
shankar and anima r reunited
playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104816

8. Nayak

Arindam theme

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104893

9. Pikoo

Title music
Grandpa's death
Pikoo draws flower
Pikoo in the garden

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104894

10. Sonar Kella

Felu theme
Mukul is hypnotised
the camel ride
Camels and trains
Playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104897

11. Teen Kanya

Title music
Mrinmoyee Sad-Samapti
Monimalika Theme-Monihara
the fatefull night

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104898

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Bob Chowdhury

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Posted: 19 years ago

#57

Originally posted by: Barnali

Here r music tracks frm albums of different satayajit Ray's films.

1. Abhijaan

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104807

2. Ashani Sanket

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104808

3. Baksha Badal

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104809

4. Charulata

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104810

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104811

5. Gharey Bairey

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104812

6. Gopy Gyne Bagha Byne

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104813

7. Kanchenjunga

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104816

8. Nayak

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104893

9. Pikoo

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104894

10. Sonar Kella

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104897

11. Teen Kanya

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104898

Barnali Di, thanks you so much for those links.

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Anol

@soulsoup

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Posted: 19 years ago

#58

Originally posted by: Barnali
Here r music tracks frm albums of different satayajit Ray's films.

1. Abhijaan

The night journey
Gulabi remembers
Narsingh theme

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104807

2. Ashani Sanket

gangacharan theme
Aftermath of the rape
playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104808

3. Baksha Badal

Title music
montage
Playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104809

4. Charulata

Charu theme
Charu recalls her childhood
Bhupati's grief
Bhupati's realisations
amal leaves

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104810

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104811

5. Gharey Bairey

Title music
Bimala out of seclusion
The uprising
"queen bee"
nikhilesh theme

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104812

6. Gopy Gyne Bagha Byne

Entry of halla king
the prisoners

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104813

7. Kanchenjunga

Title music
The mist
shankar and anima r reunited
playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104816

8. Nayak

Arindam theme

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104893

9. Pikoo

Title music
Grandpa's death
Pikoo draws flower
Pikoo in the garden

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104894

10. Sonar Kella

Felu theme
Mukul is hypnotised
the camel ride
Camels and trains
Playout

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104897

11. Teen Kanya

Title music
Mrinmoyee Sad-Samapti
Monimalika Theme-Monihara
the fatefull night

http://www.badongo.net/file/1104898