Satyajit Ray
31 books
Pather Panchali placed Indian cinema on the world map in 1955: this is a simple statement of fact, no hyperbole. In the sixty years since, the movie has acquired cult status, and its sketchbook mythical proportions. Believed to have been forever lost after the film-maker donated it to the Cinematheque Francaise archives, the sketchbook is now available as a book, along with other fascinating and previously unseen material on the film: parts of the draft scenario, ...
Best known for his immensely popular Feluda mysteries and the adventures of Professor Shonku, Satyajit Ray was also one of the most skilful short story writers of his generation. Ray s short stories often explore the macabre and the supernatural, and are marked by the sharp characterization and trademark wit that distinguishes his films. This collection brings together Ray s best short stories including such timeless gems as Khagam , Indigo , Fritz , Bhuto , The ...
Best-known for his immensely popular Feluda mysteries and the adventures of Professor Shonku, Satyajit Ray was also one of the most skilful short story writers of his generation. Rays short stories often explore the macabre and the supernatural, and are marked by the sharp characterization and trademark wit that characterizes his films. This collection brings together Rays best short stories-including such timeless gems as Khagam, Indigo, Fritz, Bhuto, The ...
Satyajit Ray started the creative process of making a film with the screenplay. This collection of film scripts and treatments written originally in English by Satyajit Ray is intended for both his fans and a reader new to Ray’s works. The collection consists of the scripts of Ray’s well-known feature and TV films as well as some lesser known works. Also included are a science-fiction script Ray wrote for a Hollywood studio and an early version of the ...
The first incredibly gripping adventure in a heart-stopping new series by Puffin called ‘Classic Adventures’. Follow Fotikchand’s adventures through the colourful and dangerous streets of Kolkata in this action-packed thriller!. An eleven-year-old boy, Bablu, gets kidnapped by four goons. As they make their escape in a stolen car, they meet with an accident and two of the goons die on the spot while the boy loses consciousness. The two ...
A client with an evil lookalike. A stabbing in a hotel. A gang that peddles spurious drugs… The murder of a stranger in a Calcutta hotel leads Feluda and his friends to Kathmandu, straight into the den of Maganlal Meghraj, their old adversary. With an incident at Swayambhunath, an ambush in a prayer wheel factory, a thrilling night at the casino, and a prolonged LSD-induced delusion for Jatayu, the case soon turns into a memorable adventure. ...
Visiting the famous hunter and wildlife writer Mahitosh Sinha-Roy in his Jalpaiguri palace, Feluda is presented with a riddle that holds the clue to ancestral treasure. But before he can begin unravelling the puzzle, Mr Sinha-Roy’s secretary is found dead in the forest, his body savaged by a big cat. Feluda’s investigations lead him deeper and deeper into a scandalous family secret, and bring him face to face with a ...
A disturbed grave in a century-old cemetery. A ciphered message. A mysterious `repeater's¦ On a visit to the Park Street cemetery in Calcutta, Feluda and his friends chance upon an old grave that has been dug into. Slight clues lead them into the heart of a mystery that is both complex and blood-curdling. When the jigsaw that involves a seance in a gloomy old building, a singer in a restaurant, a ruthless and rich collector and a midnight vigil at the ...
A boy who can recall his past life. A hint of hidden treasure. An adventure in the desert of Rajasthan¦ In one of their most hair-raising escapades ever, Feluda and Topshe set out for Rajasthan on the trail of the parapsychologist Dr Hajra and Mukul, a boy who claims he remembers his previous life. On the way they meet Jatayu, an author of popular crime thrillers, who decides to accompany them. After numerous adventures, including an impromptu camel ride ...
Cinema has never been saved by writers. We may have more of them now than ever before, but at the same time there are more and stronger shoulders now to shrug them off. No. Words are not enough. Words need the backing of action, or there is no revolution. And the only action that counts is that which a film maker calls into play by snapping out his words of command in his own particular field of battle. If his victory, and of many others like him, restore even a ...
The search for a valuable scroll leads Feluda and his friends to a strange case of characters, and perhaps the most chilling case Feluda has ever been faced with. For among D.G.Sen, the collector of scrolls, his son Mahim, his secretary Nishit, the wildlife photographer Bilas Majumdar and the astrologer Laxman Bhattacharya, there is a cold-blooded criminal, and he must be stopped before it is too late… Feluda’s twelve ...
Two briefcases exchanged on a train. A priceless manuscript. An ambush in a dark alley… A prosperous gentleman employs Feluda to recover his blue briefcase, which has got switched with another passenger's on the Kalka Mail. What starts out as an innocuous case soon becomes one of Feluda's most thrilling adventures. Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu set off for Simla in search of the briefcase, but there are unexpected twists and turns all the ...
An American buys a yakshi head stolen from a Bhubaneshwar temple and subsequently dies in a plane crash. Trying to prevent the smuggling of priceless sculptures out of India, Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu follow the lead of the yakshi to the Ellora caves. But the appearance of a Bollywood film crew and a sudden murder complicate matters, and Feluda must draw on all his investigative skills to solve the case before the vandal strikes again.
Feluda and Topshe are on vacation in picturesque Gangtok when they stumble upon the mysterious murder of a business executive. There are many suspects—the dead man’s business partner Sasadhar Bose, the long-haired foreigner Helmut, the mysterious Dr Vaidya, perhaps even the timid Mr Sarkar. Feluda unravels the knotty case with his usual aplomb and tracks the criminal down in a far-flung monastery.
Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu are in Bombay where Jatayu’s latest book is being filmed under the title Jet Bahadur. Soon after Jatayu hands over a package to a man in a red shirt, a man is murdered in the elevator of the high-rise where the producer of the film lives. Feluda and his companions find themselves in the midst of one of their most thrilling adventures ever, with a hair-raising climax aboard a train during location shooting.
An incident near the desolate Chinnamasta temple on the rocky riverbank of Rajrappa leads to the death of Mahesh Chowdhury, the head of a Hazaribagh family. Adding to the mystery are a set of coded diaries, a valuable stamp collection that is missing, and a tiger that is roaming the streets of Hazaribagh. One of Feluda’s most intriguing adventures, this shows the master sleuth at his best.
Stranger: Stories showcases some of Satyajit Ray’s memorable explorations into the twilight territories of the peculiar and the supernatural. These twenty extraordinary tales will send shivers up your spine, ensure you keep the lights on when you go to bed at night, and—occasionally—allow you the luxury of nervous laughter. In ‘Bhuto’, a ventriloquist’s dummy slowly but surely turns malign and more human than its master; in ‘The Pterodactyl’s ...
Professor Shonku cannot dismiss without proof the possibility that unicorns do exist somewhere on earth. In fact, Charles Willard, a fellow scientist, claimed to have actually seen them in Tibet, but, unfortunately, died shortly afterwards. So, when Shonku learns that another expedition is starting off for Tibet, he jumps at the opportunity to trace Willard’s route and find the unicorns. Tibet is just one of the exotic places Professor Shonku’s exploits take ...
Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku, eccentric genius and scientist, disappeared without a trace after he shot off into space in a rocket from his backyard in Giridih, accompanied by his loyal but not-too-intelligent servant Prahalad, his cat Newton, and Bidhushekhar, his robot with an attitude. What has become of the professor? Has he decided to stay on in Mars, his original destination? Or has he found his way to some other planet and is living there with strange ...
The Vision of Ray is virtually an album of Satyajit Ray's cine-posters and other artworks exclusively related to his films. Ray made 28 feature films, five documentaries and two short films. He is perhaps the only film director in the world who designed all the promotional materials of his films. All these materials--posters, pre-shooting sketches, billboards, drawings, lobby cards, leaflets, handbills, glass slides, logos, memorabilia--are from the rare ...
Exactly fifty years ago, in 1955, the release of Pather Panchali heralded the arrival of a master in the world of cinema. Over the next forty years, Satyajit Ray came to be regarded as one of the world's finest film-makers ever. Today, more than a decade after his death, he continues to be India's most respected name in international film circles. Apart from his achievements as a director, Ray was also a prolific writer of novels, short stories, and essays on ...
With the Apu Trilogy in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray caught the attention of cinema connoisseurs all over the world. The trilogy, which is the story of Apu, is also the story of growing up in India. It traces Apu’s growth from a childhood harsh with poverty but brightened by a passion for creativity and learning, into a battered maturity. This volume, containing a foreword and working sketches by Ray, who also checked and edited the text, which is based on a ...
Two gripping novellas of suspense and mystery featuring Satyajit Ray's inimitable detective, Feluda. The first story solves the mystery of disappearance of a priceless ring while contending with death threats, menacing sanyasis and an animal trainer with murder on his mind. The second novella - A Mysterious Case - starts out as an ordinary complaint of exchange of an attache case containing an invaluable manuscript with a case belonging to a fellow passenger on ...