The Director Who Couldn’t Say ‘Action’-by Juhi Saklani
Bansi said: “Satyajit didn’t know what to say during the making of Pather Panchali.” Satyajit chipped in: “Bansi would whisper to me: Say...
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- Feb 7, 2022
- 1 min
NAYAK: With mahanayak Uttam Kumar by Juhi Saklani
“If you are showing a matinee idol, then you have to cast a star. Nobody else would do; people wouldn’t accept the fact”. “I always...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
INTRODUCING MS. TAGORE AND MR. CHATTERJI!
In what was the first film for both of them, Soumitra Chatterji and Sharmila Tagore got together to turn the screen into a luminous poem....
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 8, 2022
- 2 min
A Hundred Posts for Ray [9/100] – Paras Pathar: A Golden Comedy
by Juhi Saklani As Satyajit Ray prepared for the shooting of ‘Jalsaghar’ and Chhabi Biswas took horse-riding lessons for his role,...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 1, 2022
- 3 min
A Hundred Posts for Ray [8/100] - The 'Miracle' of Jalsaghar by Juhi Saklani
Satyajit Ray was tired. He and his colleagues had seen and rejected some 30 havelis and palaces that had been suggested to them as...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
A Hundred Posts for Ray [7/100] - 'In which Ray turns to Song-&-Dance' by Juhi Saklani
Today it feels very endearing that Satyajit Ray, disturbed by the commercial failure of his second film Aparajito and wanting his...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
A Hundred Posts for Ray [6/100] - The 'Failure' of Aparajito by Juhi Saklani
Aparajito, the second film in the Apu Trilogy, did not do well in terms of ticket sales in Bengal. After the success of Pather Panchali,...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 3, 2021
- 4 min
A Hundred Posts for Ray [5/100]-Ray and his actors by Juhi Saklani
The producer of Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977), Suresh Jindal, in his book on the making of the film describes the reaction of two actors to...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 26, 2021
- 1 min
The fonts from Satyajit Ray by Juhi Saklani
Did you know that Satyajit Ray had designed four Roman fonts, of which one had won an international competition in 1971? When Ray left...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Bansi & Subrata: duo Aparajito by Juhi Saklani(Ray 3/100)
Doesn't this shot from Aparajito (1956) look exactly as if Apu's parents, Sarbajaya and Harihar, are in the open courtyard of an old...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
A Hundred Posts for Ray [2/100] by Juhi Saklani
In 1944, 23-year-old Ray had already been working as a visual artist in the British ad agency DJ Keymer & Co. for a year. He had also...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
7000 /- and Kaash flowers: A Hundred Posts for Ray (1/100) by Juhi Saklani
60 years after Pather Panchali had been released, a friend of mine went to rural West Bengal in the autumn months and saw fields of...
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