The River – Jean Renoir
Rhada dance sequence from Jean’s Renoir “Le Fleuve” or the River. This dance scene is part of story within a story. Radha plays a mixed race character called Melanie in this coming of age film. The...
View ArticleAli Akbar Khan R.I.P
Gardens of Dreams Khan was born in what is today Bangladesh in 1922 and held his first performance in the United States in 1955. He opened a music school in Berkeley in 1967, later moving it to San...
View ArticleIndian Bazaar
Radha Giving Butter-Milk to Krishna, illustration to Bihari’s Sat Saiya, Basohli, c. 1690 See more Basoli paintings Shahzia Sikander Avatar of Vishnu Buddha as the 9th Avatar of Vishnu F. Clementi The...
View ArticleThe World of Ravi Shankar – 12/12/12
The Song of the little road See Pather Panchali 1955 (Song of the Little Road) Bangla Movie Full- starting with Ravi Shankar soundtrack Ravi Shanker passed away in San Diego. Nytimes obit here. Philip...
View ArticleRay of Hope, Two Documenatries – Satyajit Ray and RabindranathTagore
Pather Panchali - Full film (youtube) The Art of Film: Satyajit Ray, a viewpoint (youtube) (Highly recommended) Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore was recently honored by the U.N. Click to see large...
View ArticleMalala – Calls for Free Education at UN
Malala Yousafzai Happy birthday Malala! She is 16 years old today. Malala Yousafzai calls on governments to provide free education for all Pakistani schoolgirl who survived Taliban assassination...
View ArticleThe World of Satyajit Ray – Mini Retrospective- May 2, 2015
Charulata (youtube) 20 films directed by Satyajit Ray – see photos slideshow here. Aparajito Childhood days Ray of hope – two documentaries Previous post Encounter with Jean Renoir Of all the films of...
View ArticleSaeed Jaffrey – Bollywood, British Screen Legend Dies
Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) directed by Satyajit Ray Saeed Jaffrey – Bollywood, British Screen Legend Dies In a career that spanned more than half a century, Jaffrey made almost 200 screen...
View ArticleOM Puri -A Magnificent Actor of East/West Dies at 66
Guardian Obit here. Om Puri Om Prakesh Puri OBE (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Indian, British, and American films, as well as independent...
View ArticleShashi Kapoor – Bollywood Legend Dies at 79
Heat and Dust (Merchant-Ivory production) BBC Shashi Kapoor: Remembering Bollywood’s crossover star Sammie and Rosie Get Laid Shashi Kapoor with Clarie Bloom (script by Hanif Kureishi) Rare and Unseen...
View ArticleSubrata Mitra – Celebrated Cinematographer + Satyajit Ray’s Sketches
Subrata Mitra Remembering the great cinematographer Subrata Mitra, best known for his collaboration with Satyajit Ray, on his 88th birth anniversary. He was the man who revolutionized the art of...
View ArticleSoumitra Chatterjee is 84 years old
Soumitra Chatterjee is 84 years old today. Happy birthday! (photo via) (On his mater Satyajit Ray, via Time of India)
View ArticleGayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Her life & on Her work with Derrida
G.C. Spivak Interview Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Because of the unusualness of my parents…my mother was very active. When the refugees from the newly created state of East Pakistan came in the millions...
View ArticleRIP Zarina – An Independent Artist from India
Zarina died Zarina Hashmi, known professionally by her first name only, was an Indian artist living and working in the USA. Her work spanned drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Associated with the...
View ArticleRIP Irrfan Khan, Life of Pi, Namesake, The Lunchbox
Irrfan Khan Dies aged 53 (The Guardian) Irrfan Khan a life in pictures Filmography – IMDB Two of the films that he has worked on (Slumdog Millionaire and Life of Pi) collectively won 12 Oscars. BBC...
View ArticleRIP Soumitra Chatterjee, Actor, Playwright, Poet
Soumitra Chatterjee: India acting legend dies, aged 85 Soumitra Chatterjee (January 19, 1935 — November 15, 2020) (photo via) The third movie of the trilogy, Apur Sansar, which released in 1959, was...
View Article
