A Celebration of Satyajit Ray

Who? This month marked the start of a two-part season at the BFI devoted to the films of Indian director Satyajit Ray, a man widely heralded as one of world cinema's greatest auteurs.

What? Ray was born in Calcutta in 1921 to a Bengali family of artistic and literary prominence. He was educated in Bengali and English and had a deep appreciation for both Eastern and Western culture, something that explains the universa...