Films Division to showcase Satyajit Ray’s non-feature works in Ray Today festival

Continuing with its year-long birth centenary celebrations of the auteur Satyajit Ray, Films Division is presenting an online film festival, Ray Today. The festival will showcase a curated package of non-feature works by Ray along with films on him and his craft. The virtual festival will be showcased on the Films Division website from 7-9 May. The news was shared on Twitter as well.

Ray Today is free and open to all and includes a rare documentary made by him on Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore; a television film by Ray based on a Munshi Premchand’s short story titled Sadgati (1981); and the much-acclaimed 1982 eponymous biopic by the auteur by Shyam Benegal. 

The other works scheduled to be screened include Ray's short films Two, Pikoo, Sukumar Ray, Bala and The Inner Eye as well as documentaries on the filmmaker by Goutam Ghose, which was screened at the Venice Film Festival in 1999 and an early documentary made by film historian BD Garga that chronicles Ray’s filmmaking process. Sagnik Chatterjee’s documentary, Feluda — 50 years of Ray's Detective will also be screened as part of the festival. 

Earlier this month, the ministry of information and broadcasting had announced that it would be organising year-long celebrations in India and overseas to mark the 100th birth anniversary of the filmmaker.