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From Feluda sketches to film sets: Satyajit Ray like never before through Nemai Ghosh’s lens

The Indian Express·Vandana Kalra·24 days ago
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Ray composed music on a synthesiser at home Described by French humanist photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson as Satyajit Ray’s “photo-biographer”, Nemai Ghosh first met the filmmaker in 1968 during the making of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in the unassuming city of Rampurhat in West Bengal. “We clicked immediately,” Ghosh recalls in the preface to the publication, Faces and Facets: Satyajit Ray in Colour. “The way he walked, talked and handled his cast, crew and equipment — in fact everything about him — intrigued me. I was so mesmerised by the man that I forgot to take any photographs of the shooting. My two rolls of black-and-white film were finished in no time. Manik da never said a word to me; he just kept watching from the corner of his eye. But that was all the encouragement I needed.” Nemai Ghosh That instinctive connection became the foundation of a remarkable visual archive that now forms the core of the new DAG exhibition and publication.…

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