Orchestrated by June Ananya Pal, a revered cultural activist with strong ties to Kolkata, the event, aptly titled Music & Beyond, captivated the audience
On the occasion of World Music Day, 21 June, not far away, Nairobi is going to see compositions by famous India composers like Satyajit Ray, RD Burman, AR Rahman and others.
Asking about his preparation techniques, Sardar said, “Out of the six subjects, I dedicated 4 hours a day to every subject.
The Indian artists whose names graced the list were but few. Benode Behari, Nandalal, Ramkinkar, Rabindranath, Abanindranath and for a change Jamini Roy. No artist from Bombay could find favour in this elite list.
It is now time to explore his works in yet another unexplored medium, a graphic novel. One of Ray’s most powerful short stories, Khagam has been presented in a graphic novel in Bengali.
The graduates of the thirteenth batch of the Film Wing, the first batch of the Electronic and Digital Media wing and the first batch of the Animation Cinema gets their Post Graduate Diploma Certificate after pursuing different specializations and successfully completed their first films.
Ray was fond of the great Hollywood masters, and never encouraged the arty-arty film-makers with no audience focus and scant responsibility to get the financiers money back. The director expresses himself with others money and for him to remain creative, has to understand his primary audience and devise means within available resources, to reach that audience.
Raju Raman, president, Cine Academy, meanwhile, recalled how the former President of France, François Mitterrand had to climb up a step at National Library to match the height of Ray so he could confer on him the prestigious Legion of Honour, the highest French order of merit.
The maestro of parallel cinema Ray’s political satire of 1980, ‘Hirak Rajar Deshe’ (In the land of the Diamond King) has once again drawn the attention with CPI-M using it for their digital campaign against the binary force of Trinamul Congress and the BJP.
This was announced during the Golden Jubilee edition of IFFI in 2019, by Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of I&B, as part of the Centenary celebrations of Satyajit Ray.
