This comprehensive study of Satyajit Ray provides a commentary on the film-maker's work over an extra-ordinarily creative career spanning four decades. Placing Ray ion his social and cultural context, it discusses each of his films from Pather Panchali to Agantuk in critical detail and with an authority born of the author's long familiarity with Ray's work. The book devotes special attention to the literary sources of the films - as well as Ray's departures ...
