Interestingly, Ray does not focus on this brass vessel much, so we do not pay attention to it either. It is only when her own children’s survival is at stake that Sarbajaya turns her face against the old woman, and she dies like an animal”, writes Chidananda Dasgupta in The Cinema of Satyajit Ray. While she was alive, the two children, Apu and Durga, loved her “not so much because she was their aunt, as because she represents a mysterious force of life and death that fascinates them through her stories of the witch and other fairy tales. The vessel that holds her water suggests the reality of her tragic death as it tumbles down the stones noisily, suggesting that she is no more. Indir is introduced with a close-up of a brass bowl filled with some mishmash, and then the camera tracks back to show the bent, toothless woman eating from the bowl. The dented brass vessel that the doddering aunt Indir Thakrun carries with her defines the abject despair of the old woman’s impoverished, unwanted life. However, it is in Pather Panchali that we see hunger at its starkest. One is Pather Panchali, the second is Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, and the third is Asani Sanket. For all we know, we may cast a complete newcomer," he said.WHunger finds a prominent place in three films by Satyajit Ray, reflecting three completely different backdrops, though hunger is a significant sub-plot in all three narratives, each one a ‘period’ piece in a manner of speaking. I'll first complete the script before I even think of whom to cast. I don't know where they got these names from. "Please, it's not Aamir (Khan), Shah Rukh (Khan) or Hrithik Roshan playing Kishore Kumar. Now we'll see the sensitive side of the man who sang numbers as deeply moving as Chingari koi bhadke and Mere naina sawan bhadow and who patronised Satyajit Ray's cinema," Sircar said.Īsked about the casting, the director said he was amused and perturbed by the names doing the rounds in the media. "We've seen enough of the eccentric side. Thanks to the unconditional support of the Ganguly family, Sircar's biopic, which he starts shooting next year, will reflect the unknown side of the multi-faceted Kishore Kumar. Sircar intends to incorporate images, songs and the real voice of Kishore Kumar in the movie based on his life. They've shared their rarest of experiences with Kishore-da, and unreleased songs and rare footage from his films," said Sircar, whose first film "Yahaan" received much appreciation. "But fortunately for me, the Ganguly family - wife Leena Chandavarkar-ji, sons Amit and Sumeet Kumar - have opened their hearts and homes to me. Unfortunately, meeting the sisters, who have sung innumerable songs with Kishore Kumar, is not that easy for a director who's just one-film old. They'd be invaluable in giving shape to the biopic." ![]() ![]() The director, who's busy scripting the biopic, is overjoyed that the legendary singer-actor's family shared their experiences and memories with him, but says he would love some inputs from Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle too.Īnxious to meet the singing geniuses, Sircar said: "I've read so many of Lata-ji's and Asha-ji's observations on Kishore-da. In fact, some of the films that Kishore Kumar directed, like Door Gagan Ki Chaon Mein, reflected the sensitivities of Ray," Sircar told IANS. "Kishore Kumar never stopped preening about this fact to close friends, 'Do you know India's greatest film 'Pather Panchali' could've never been made if it wasn't for me'? He loved to see himself as a patron of the fine arts. This is just one of the interesting anecdotes filmmaker Shoojit Sircar chanced upon while researching for his biopic on the legendary singer-actor-director.ĭo any of Kishore Kumar's fans know he had partly financed Satyajit Ray's career-making Pather Panchali? A fact Kishore Kumar never tired of reminding Ray about whenever they bumped into each other in Kolkata, said Sircar. Kishore Kumar loved to see himself as a patron of the arts and would often say that Satyajit Ray's critically acclaimed Pather Panchali would not have been made without his help.
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