One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

" He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his career.

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* Mullah Nasiruddiner Galpo ( Tales of Mullah Nasreddin ) collected and retold by Satyajit Ray, ( in Bengali )

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* Bala ( 1976 film ), a documentary by Satyajit Ray about the Bharatanatyam dancer Balasaraswati

There were allegations that the film was plagiarized from a 1967 script, The Alien, by celebrated Indian Bengali director Satyajit Ray.

Movie critic Andrew O ' Hehir, noting the strong influences of Renoir, Rosselini and Satyajit Ray, said, " It's hard to overemphasize how strange and ambitious and completely out of context it was for a black urban filmmaker with no money and no reputation to make that kind of movie in 1977.

After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

Beginning in the mid-1950s he composed the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, which became internationally acclaimed.

* The acclaimed Indian parallel Bengali film director Satyajit Ray intended to direct a theatrical adaptation of the novel, but the project was never realized.

* The Apu Trilogy, a series of Bengali films from the 1950s directed by Satyajit Ray

Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra, who uses the anglicised name Pradosh C. Mitter, is a fictional private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels and short stories written by Indian Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray.

Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children ’ s magazine called Sandesh in 1965, under the editorialship of Satyajit Ray and Subhas Mukhopadhyay.

Jatayu lives at Garpar in Kolkata, and it may be recalled that Satyajit Ray himself passed his childhood at 100, Garpar.

Following recent Feluda films made by Sandip Ray, Satyajit Ray's son, there have been questions over Sidhu Jyatha's continued relevance in the stories considering technologies such as the internet offer a faster, wider and more effective knowledge base than a well-read person.

Utpal Dutta immortalised this character in one Feluda movie Joi Baba Felunath, which Satyajit Ray directed.

Satyajit Ray wrote thirty-five Feluda stories, most of which are extremely and nostalgicly popular among Bengali children as well as adults.

India has produced many critically acclaimed cinema-makers like K. Vishwanath, Bapu, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Guru Dutt, K. Vishwanath, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shaji N. Karun, Girish Kasaravalli, Shekhar Kapoor, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Shankar Nag, Girish Karnad, G. V. Iyer et al.

This was shortlisted for the Satyajit Ray, short film awards.

He is also known as Tragedy King, and is described as " the ultimate method actor " by Satyajit Ray.

Films by Indian directors like Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Shaji N. Karun, Girish Kasaravalli, Shyam Benegal, Mani Ratnam, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and G. Aravindan have been screened in various international film festivals.

This allowed ' Parallel ' Bengali filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray to achieve worldwide fame, with his films gaining success among European, American and Asian audiences.

Indian winners of the Academy Awards include Bhanu Athaiya ( costume designer ), Satyajit Ray ( filmmaker ), A. R. Rahman ( music composer ), Resul Pookutty ( sound editor ) and Gulzar ( lyricist ).

It was cited as an influence on several early Indian art films, including Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin ( Two Acres of Land, 1953 ) and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali ( 1955 ).

Upperstall. com described her work in the film as " an outstanding psychologically penetrating performance very different from those seen normally till then in mainstream Hindi cinema ", and famous independent filmmaker Satyajit Ray commented, " In Ankur she may not have fitted immediately into her rustic surroundings, but her poise and personality are never in doubt.

Anderson has acknowledged that he went to India to film his 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited partly as a tribute to the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, whose " films have also inspired all my other movies in different ways " ( the film is dedicated to him ).< ref name = " The Statesman ">

The most influential filmmaker involved in this movement was Satyajit Ray.

The Bengali language industry is notable as having nurtured the director Satyajit Ray, an internationally renowned filmmaker and a winner of many awards, among them the Bharat Ratna ( India's highest civilian award ), the Légion d ' honneur ( France ), and the Lifetime achievement Academy Award.

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Sukumar Ray was the son of famous children's story writer Upendrakishore Ray ( Ray Chowdhury ) and the father of legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray and grandfather of famous Bengali filmmaker Sandip Ray.

The Oscar-winning Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray and Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee's family hail from this district.

Our Films, Their Films is an anthology of film criticism by noted Bengali filmmaker, composer and writer Satyajit Ray.

" The rasa method of performance is clearly apparent in the performances of popular Hindi film actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, nationally acclaimed Hindi films like Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ), and internationally acclaimed Bengali films directed by Satyajit Ray.

In the past, it enjoyed a large, even disproportionate, representation in Indian cinema, and produced film directors like Satyajit Ray, who was an Academy Honorary Award winner, and the recipient of India and France's greatest civilian honours, the Bharat Ratna and Legion of Honor respectively, and Mrinal Sen, who is the recipient of the French distinction of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and the Russian Order of Friendship.

One of the first films produced in Bangladesh after independence was Titash Ekti Nadir Naam ( A River Called Titas ) in 1973 by acclaimed director Ritwik Ghatak, whose stature in Bengali cinema is comparable to that of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

In his book, Terrorism, media, liberation, John David Slocum argues that like Satyajit Ray's classic masterpiece Pather Panchali ( 1955 ), Khan's Mother India has vied for alternative definitions of Indianness.

Some of her notable films include Shyam Benegal's Nishant ( 1975 ), Junoon ( 1978 ), Susman ( 1986 ), and Antarnaad ( 1992 ); Satyajit Ray ’ s Shatranj Ke Khiladi ; Mrinal Sen ’ s Khandhar, Genesis, Ek Din Achanak ; Saeed Mirza ’ s Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai ; Sai Paranjpye ’ s Sparsh and Disha ; Gautam Ghose ’ s Paar ; Aparna Sen ’ s Picnic and Sati ; Mahesh Bhatt ’ s Arth ; Vinay Shukla ’ s Godmother.

He played Mirza Sajjad Ali, a chess-obsessed Lucknowi ( citizen of Lucknow ), in Satyajit Ray's classic Shatranj Ke Khilari ( 1977 ).

' Arjun, Pratidwandi, filmed by Satyajit Ray ( English title: The Adversary ), Aranyer Din-Raatri ( The Days and Nights of the Forest, also filmed by Satyajit Ray ), Ekaa ebong Koyekjon are some of his well known works of fiction.