Ray and Tagore
Satyajit Ray's mother had taken him to visit Rabindranath Tagore when he was five years old. Young Ray extended his autograph book to Tagore. Tagore wrote in it in verse: |
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Tagore comes alive in Ray's dynamic brush strokes : 1961 |
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Tagore then told Ray, “When you grow up, you’ll understand what I’ve written for you here”. |
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Years later, while filming Pather Panchali, Ray realized that all his theoretical knowledge and study of film proved inadequate to the challenge he faced. |
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| He wrote, “One day’s work with camera and actors taught me more than all the dozen books I read on film making. I found out for myself how to catch the hushed stillness of dusk in a Bengali village, when the wind drops and turns the ponds into sheets of glass, and the smoke from the ovens settles in wispy trails over the landscape, |
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| Ray during the planning stage of his one-hour film, Rabindranath Tagore.
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| and plaintive blows on conch shells from homes far and near are joined by the chorus of crickets which rise as the light falls, until all one sees are stars in the sky, and the fireflies that blink and swirl in the thickets.” |
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