Sandip Ray
The Greats Are All Gone, Sandip Ray On Soumitra Chatterjee
The mighty Satyajit Ray directed Soumitra Chatterjee in 14 films. Ray’s son Sandip grew up watching this great twosome at work, one of world cinema’s most accomplished collaborations…. “Comparable with Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni and with Kurosawa and Mifune,” says the affable Sandip Ray, himself a filmmaker of considerable repute. “Soumitra Babu’s collaboration with my father started from before I was born. He had gone to my father to be cast in Pather Panchali in 1959.My father found him too old to play Apu. Later he cast Soumitra Babu as Apu in A | Click Here...
“Satyajit Ray, My Father,” Sandip Ray Pays Tribute To The God Of Indian Filmmaking On His 100th Birth Anniversary
“I remember him as an affectionate and caring father, though the onus of bringing me up, taking care of all my day-to-day requirements fell entirely on my mother. She looked after my school, my homework everything while my father was busy making movies. Though he did care a lot about what went on in my life. Oh yes, he was definitely a family man. He always wanted us to be near him. So what he did was to plan all his outdoor shootings around my school holidays. Yes! He shot his films according to my vacations, so my mother and I could be with him. More than the chance to be with my father | Click Here...