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Ray, Satyajit
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From: Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
Date: 19990101
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Ray, Satyajit (1921–1992)
Indian film director, composer, and writer. He was appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1989. Ray was born in Calcutta and attended the university there, before studying art and poetry at Rabindranath Tagore's university. He then became a commercial artist (1943–56), making his first film, Pather Panchali (1955), on a part-time basis and founding Calcutta's first film society in 1947. The success of Pather Panchali brought Indian films to the attention of western audiences and also established Ray's own reputation. Based on a ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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