![]() ![]() ![]() Ghosh met Ray at age eight, and played a small part as a student at the village school in Pather Panchali, shot over from 1952 to 1955. Ray told him that this was his way of composing shots in his head," said Tushar Kanti Ghosh, 80, a scion of the Zamindar family which used to own most of the land in this village turned part of the city at one time, adding with a wrinkled grin: "He told dad he wasted around a dozen handkerchiefs a day thinking about shots!" "My father asked him what was he really doing. Read | Satyajit Ray’s 'Pather Panchali' declared best ever Indian film by FIPRESCI "He used to come to this field between our house and the ancient twin Shiva temple and stand for hours under a tree staring and chewing a handkerchief. Ray or Manick da as his close associates called him, whose 102nd birthday is being celebrated Tuesday with aplomb across the globe, chose the village as it "was only four miles from the city limits and this meant that we could make daily trips" as also because with his shoe-string budget to shoot the movie, he could hardly afford on-location shoots in faraway rural idles. Just on the outskirts of the old city limits of the megapolis of Kolkata stands the semi-urban hamlet of Boral, where a young art director with the advertisement agency D J Keymer shot his classic debut film Pather Panchali ( Song of the Road), some 70 years ago, to metamorphose into the celebrated movie maestro Satyajit Ray. ![]()
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