FILM DIRECTOR

Satyajit Ray

1921 - 1992

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Satyajit Ray (Bengali: [ˈʃotːodʒit ˈrae̯] ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema. He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy (1969–1992).[a] Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Satyajit Ray is the 113th most popular film director (down from 88th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from India (down from 67th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Film Director.

Satyajit Ray is most famous for his films Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Satyajit Ray ranks 113 out of 2,041. Before him are Zhang Yimou, Edwin S. Porter, George Cukor, Robert Altman, Walter Hill, and Mel Brooks. After him are Costa-Gavras, John Woo, Jules Dassin, William Hanna, Wes Craven, and Michael Curtiz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Satyajit Ray ranks 40. Before him are Yoichiro Nambu, Patricia Highsmith, Ralph Asher Alpher, Lana Turner, Robert Bruce Merrifield, and Amin al-Hafiz. After him are Deborah Kerr, Jane Russell, Marija Gimbutas, Vasily Stalin, Jean-Marie Balestre, and Alida Valli. Among people deceased in 1992, Satyajit Ray ranks 24. Before him are Ernst Happel, Joan Fuster, Jan Oort, Benny Hill, Paolo Borsellino, and Félix Guattari. After him are Peter D. Mitchell, Anthony Perkins, Aribert Heim, Nureddin al-Atassi, David Bohm, and Algirdas Julien Greimas.

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In India

Among people born in India, Satyajit Ray ranks 107 out of 1,861. Before him are Harsha (590), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Premchand (1880), Janaki Ammal (1897), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), and Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671). After him are Dayananda Saraswati (1824), C. R. Rao (1920), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Vyasa (-390), and Ram Nath Kovind (1945).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Satyajit Ray ranks 1. After him are Mahesh Bhatt (1948), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Michael Radford (1946), Lindsay Anderson (1923), B. R. Chopra (1914), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Shyam Benegal (1934), Dara Singh (1928), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), S. Shankar (1963), and Guru Dutt (1925).

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