#Bengali cinema

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Devi / The Goddess (1960) | dir. Satyajit Ray

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Charulata (1964)

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Chokker Bali (2003)

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On left: Audrey hepburn & Gregory peck in Roman Holiday (1953)

on right: Uttam Kumar & suchitra sen in Saptapadi (1961)

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‘Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.’ —Akira Kurosawa Remembering #SatyajitRay, the legend of Indian cinema, on his 103rd birth anniversary (02/05/1921). What are your favourite Satyajit Ray films?

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Charulata (1964)

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Ganga, Rajen Tarafdar, 1960

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Chandrabati Devi as Chandramukhi and PC Barua playing the titular role in Devdas (1935).

...Barua had taken over, deepened and enriched the Devdas myth; he had lived and died as only Saratchandra and his readers could have imagined. 'Perhaps the whole purpose of your advent in the world of cinema', the novelist himself had said, was 'to give life to my brainchild Devdas.'

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Antareen (The Confined) | Mrinal Sen | 1993 | India

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Unishe April (1994), dir. Rituparno Ghosh

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Saptapadi (1961) | dir. Ajoy Kar

"How are you feeling?" "Good" "What's good about it? "Everything."

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দোসর Dosar, The Companion (2006)

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Devi (1960)

By Satyajit Ray.

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Konkona Sen Sharma in Shesher Kobita (2015)