THE WORLD OF RAY : FRONTLINE'S TRIBUTE TO THE MASTER FILM-MAKER ON HIS BIRTH CENTENARY

The world of Ray: Frontline’s tribute to the master film-maker on his birth centenary, A commemorative issue

ARTICLES: 

Editor’s Note

A century of Ray; 

A compilation of Ray’s films; 

Interview: Conversations with Ray; 

Era of enlightenment; 

Discovering rural Bengal in Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay’s stories; 

A letter from Ray; 

‘Shatranj ke Khilari’: The making of a queer figure; 

How Suresh Jindal got the master’s nod for ‘Shatranj’; 

The critical insider’s changing perception of the idea of India; 

Nemai Ghosh’s photographs of Ray at work from 1968 to 1992; 

Ray’s unstated politics; 

Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak, and the common influences that shaped them;

Working with Ravi Shankar, an extract from ‘The Apu Trilogy’; 

A French connection that changed Ray’s life; 

Fr Gaston Roberge, Ray and their institute of film studies; 

Documentary films: When Ray misfired;

 

Book review: Ray the translator, in a delightful collection of poems and short stories; 

His creation, our inspiration; 

Humanity and Ray.

INTERVIEWS: Adoor Gopalakrishnan; Shyam Benegal; Sandip Ray; Goutam Ghose; Girish Kasaravalli; Dhritiman Chaterji; Barun Chanda; Sharmila Tagore; Saswati Sen; Aparna Sen; Raghu Rai;