Satyajit Ray's films
The Big City is being rereleased as part of a BFI celebration of Satyajit Ray in July and August. Rana Mitter discusses that and other works by the Indian director (1921-1992).
Tariq Ali picks Pather Panchali and New Generation Thinker Sarah Jilani describes Jalsaghar or The Music Room. Rana Mitter presents this programme which looks at what marked out the directing of Satyajit Ray. The BFI has a season of his films screening across July and August, and is re-releasing The Big City. Rana's other guests are the programme of the BFI season and herself a film-maker, Sangeeta Datta, and Professor Chandak Sengoopta from Birkbeck, University of London.
Sarah Jilani researches post-colonial film and literature at the University of Cambridge. She is a 2021 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by Â鶹Éç Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who use their research to make radio programmes.
Professor Chandook Sengoopta is writing on the historical, cultural and ideological contexts that shaped the work and impact of the film-maker, writer, designer and composer Satyajit Ray.
Sangeeta Datta is director of Baithak UK http://www.baithak.info/director-sangeeta-datta. You can find details of the Ray season she has programmed on the BFI website bfi.org.uk
Tariq Ali has written more than 2 dozen books on world history, culture and politics https://www.versobooks.com/authors/63-tariq-ali
You can find a collection of Radio 3 programmes exploring film on the Free Thinking programme website /programmes/articles/FJbG166KXBn9xzLKPfrwpc/all-about-film-on-radio-3
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