Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye is the definitive biography of the movie giant Satyajit Ray, an exceptionally versatile film-maker who won almost every major prize in cinema, including an Oscar for lifetime achievement just before his death in 1992. Ray's films include the Apu Trilogy, The Music Room, Charulata, Days and Nights in the Forest, The Chess Players and The Stranger. He also made comedies, musicals, detective films and documentaries. This new edition, ...
An excellent book . . Thorough, fair, balanced, intelligent, and addressing every aspect of a truly astonishing artist, his life and times. This beautifully illustrated biography, the product of ten years' research by a Bengali and an English writer is the first to disentangle profound contradictions relating to Tagore. The book focuses on the man, not his art. It highlights those of Tagore's works that have universal appeal and that illuminate his complexity and ...