Reliving Satyajit Ray's best works on his 97th birth anniversary
| Updated: May 02, 2018, 11:31 PM IST
These are, arguably, the 10 best movies by the legendary auteur Satyajit Ray
Apu Trilogy
Apu Trilogy consists of Panther Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar. All three great movies. It depicts three stages in the protagonist life, his chilhood, his student days and when he gets married
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Days and nights in the forest (1970)
One of the finest work of Satyajit Ray.The movies talk about four men in their late twenties taking a vacation to escape the boredom of city life. And how this little vacation turns out to impact their lives forever!
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Charulata (1964)
The film was quite ahead of it's time, a married woman got attracts towards his mentor who also happens to be his husband's cousin.
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The Music Room (1958)
Ray brings Roy’s perfumed world to life with glittering images of fireworks, gleaming chandeliers and the cavernous extravagance of his music room, where he invites sitarists and dancers to entertain him and his guests.
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The Big City (1963)
In movie, Ray talks about daily challenges faced by people and how women contributions are very necessar in life.
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Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali is one of the greatest movies India has produced. The film has won many national and international awards and in 1956, the film nabbed the Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
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Shatranj ke Khiladi
Amjad Ali Khan plays Wajid Ali Shah, while Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey play two noblemen obsessed with Chess. This was Ray's only Hindi film.
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Nayak
The film showcases an actor recounting about his past during an Interview on a long-distance train journey.
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Devi
In the film, due to certain circumstances people of the village start believing that Sharmila Tagore, actress of the film is an avtaar of a Goddess.