
The Mozart of Cinema
‘…Ray was, of course, famously fluent in both Bengali and English. This fusion inevitably means that many aspects of Ray films are unfamiliar, offputting and sometimes incomprehensible to audiences outside India. How many international viewers will follow Ray’s pivotal pun on NASA as nesa, Bengali for ‘addiction’, in his philosophical final film, ‘Agantuk’? The relevance of Satyajit Ray.













