Website on Satyajit Ray soon
(No Ratings Yet)A website on the icon of Indian cinema, Satyajit Ray, will be inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee here on Saturday.
Created by the Society of Satyajit Ray Films, it comprises over 200 web pages to provide a comprehensive idea of the multifariousness of the great director.
The website - www.Worldofray.Com - features hundreds of photographs, including some rare ones by Ray himself, as well as write-ups by him and on him.
The date of it’s inauguration coincides with the 51st anniversary of the commercial release of Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’ (Saga of the Road) in the city, the work on celluloid that changed notions about Indian cinema.
A special section is devoted to Ray’s storyboard on Pandit Ravi Shankar, the eminent sitar maestro.
Ray’s own tale of ‘The Alien’, forms another special section in the website which also features innumerable video clips from Ray’s films and music.
The Society, an official release here said today, is working since 1994 to restore and preserve the works of Ray.
The restoration of his papers has been done at Ray’s residence in conjunction with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Archives, based in Los Angeles.
The Society has so far restored 16 Ray classics and more are in the pipeline. — PTI
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