Satyajit Ray

Other Accomplishments

In 1985, Ray won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. He received the Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992, one of only two Oscar winners from India. He was also awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992. He had also obtained the Legion of Honor from the hand of the French president in Kolkata. A project to restore all of Ray's films was launched in the early 1990s, with many individuals in India and the United States participating (including noted filmmakers Martin Scorsese, James Ivory and Ismail Merchant). A theatrical retrospective of the restored films toured internationally in the 1990s, generating press and new audiences.

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Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Indian cinema - Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award - 1992 - Bharat Ratna - Legion of Honor - Kolkata - Martin Scorsese - James Ivory - Ismail Merchant

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Satyajit Ray was also a prolific writer in Bengali. Arguably his most famous written works were the exploits of Feluda, a Bengali detective, and Professor Shanku, a scientist. Most of his writings have now been translated into English, and are finding an eager second generation of readers. Ray wrote his autobiography encompassing his childhood years, Jakhtan Choto Chilam (1982) and essays on film: Our Films, Their Films (1976), along with Bosoy Chalachchitra (1976), Ekei Bole Shooting (1979). Most of his novels and stories have been published as books by Ananda Publishing, Calcutta and most of the screenplays are published in Bengali in the Eksan Journal. During the mid-1990s, Ray's film essays and an anthology of short stories had also been published in the West.

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Bengali - Feluda - Professor Shanku - Our Films, Their Films - Calcutta

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