Films by and on Satyajit Ray will be on display at the National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai as well as Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune from his birth anniversary today till May 4.
Films by and on Satyajit Ray will be on display at the National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai as well as Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune from his birth anniversary today till May 4.
On the 101st birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray, the National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai, under the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, will host a three-day film festival at various locations across India to showcase films made by the renowned filmmaker.
Movies made on Satyajit Ray will also be shown in it.
NFDC said in a statement on Saturday that the screening will be conducted free of cost on May 2, 3 and 4 in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune.
Ray was born on 2 May 1921.
The National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai is organizing the film festival in association with the National Film Development Corporation, Films Division, National Film Archives of India and Doordarshan and supported by the Government of West Bengal and Arora Film Corporation and Friends Communication, the statement said. .
The opening film at the festival will be Anik Dutta’s Aparajito, which will have its ‘India premiere’. The film is inspired by the creation of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali and is a tribute to Ray’s masterpiece of the 50s.
A panel discussion will be held on 4th May after the screening of Pather Panchali, the world acclaimed feature on human documentation, which was presented to the world for the first time by Ray.
The panel discussion will be streamed live on NFDC’s official Facebook page for all viewers, especially cinematographers and fans of Ray’s work.
The panel will have director Shyam Benegal, Ray’s favorite actor Barun Chanda and music composer Shantanu Moitra.
The statement quoted Ravinder Bhakar, Managing Director, NFDC as saying, “On the occasion of the Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi, it is a great honor for us to celebrate Ray’s birth centenary and launch a special gallery at the National Museum of Indian Cinema as a tribute. It’s an honor to a great filmmaker.
“People have seen Ray’s films in one form or the other. Yet this time we invite Ray lovers for our chosen package to hit the big screen in select theaters across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Pune from 2nd to 4th May, 2022.
Apart from this, the premiere of Dutta’s Aparajito, slated to hit the big screens on May 13, includes NFDC’s Aangutuk, Ghare Baire, Ganashatru – all directed by Ray.
The festival will also feature music by Satyajit Ray directed by Utpalendu Chakraborty, Ray’s documentary on Rabindranath Tagore.
‘Satyajit Ray’, directed by Shyam Benegal, will feature the newly restored films of Ray – Sonar Kela, Seemadha, Hirak Rajar Deshe as well as ‘Pather Panchali’, which was restored to the Academy Film Archive, as a The negatives were almost lost in the film. fire.
Both Aparajito and Jalsaghar, directed by Ray, will also be screened.
The National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) is housed in two buildings – the new museum building and the historic 19th-century palace Gulshan Mahal – both in the Film Division complex in Mumbai.