His meeting with French film director Jean Renoir, who had come to Calcutta in 1949 to shoot his film The River (1951), and his 1950 visit to London, where he saw Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette ( Bicycle Thieves) (1948), inspired Ray to become a film-maker. Ray was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to a Bengali family and started his career as a junior visualiser. info) – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker who worked prominently in Bengali cinema and who has often been regarded as one of the greatest directors of world cinema.His other works include the memoir Yakhana chota chilama (1982 Childhood Days).Some of Ray’s writings on cinema are collected in Our Films, Their Films (1976).His stories have been translated and published in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere.Ray was the author of numerous short stories and novellas, and in fact writing, rather than filmmaking, became his main source of income.He was one of the filmmakers who initiated the Parallel cinema in Bengal.He revived the children’s magazine Sandesh (which his grandfather had started in 1913) and edited it until his death in 1992. The motion-picture director also established a parallel career in Bengal as a writer and an illustrator, chiefly for young people.The songs composed by Ray for the latter are among his best-known contributions to Bengali culture.Some of Ray’s finest films were based on novels or other works by Rabindranath Tagore, who was the principal creative influence on the director.
It was the inner struggle and corruption of the conscience-stricken person that fascinated Ray his films primarily concern thought and feeling, rather than action and plot. Most of Ray’s characters are, however, of average ability and talents-unlike the subjects of his documentary films, which include Rabindranath Tagore (1961) and The Inner Eye (1972). As a result, his films span an unusually wide gamut of mood, milieu, period, and genre, with comedies, tragedies, romances, musicals, and detective stories treating all classes of Bengali society from the mid-19th to the late 20th century. He also consciously avoided repeating himself. Ray never returned to this saga form, his subsequent films becoming more and more concentrated in time, with an emphasis on psychology rather than conventional narrative. Pather Panchali was completed in 1955 and turned out to be both a commercial and a tremendous critical success, first in Bengal and then in the West following a major award at the 1956 Cannes International Film Festival. Ray had long been an avid filmgoer, and his deepening interest in the medium inspired his first attempts to write screenplays and his confounding (1947) of the Calcutta Film Society. Among the books he illustrated (1944) was the novel Pather Panchali by Bibhuti Bhushan Banarjee, the cinematic possibilities of which began to intrigue him. In 1943 he got a job in a British-owned advertising agency, became its art director within a few years, and also worked for a publishing house as a commercial illustrator, becoming a leading Indian typographer and book-jacket designer. There Ray, whose interests had been exclusively urban and Western-oriented, was exposed to Indian and other Eastern art and gained a deeper appreciation of both Eastern and Western culture, a harmonious combination that is evident in his films. In 1940 his mother persuaded him to attend art school at Santiniketan, Rabindranath Tagore’s rural university northwest of Calcutta. He studied studied at Presidency College, Calcutta’s leading college, where he taught in English. As a director Ray was noted for his humanism, his versatility, and his detailed control over his films and their music. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He has a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (1955 The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy. 
He was born on May 2nd 1921 in Calcutta, India. 
This was announced during the Golden Jubilee edition of IFFI in 2019, by Shri Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of I&B, as part of the Centenary celebrations of Satyajit Ray.Ībout the Satyajit Ray(1921-1992) and his contributions In news : The 51st International Film Festival of India will pay rich tributes to the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray
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