Some Ray Thoughts

A blog on meaningful cinemas not containing Ray, from an Indian can be read in multiple ways. Either we can feel that it is too obvious that it need not be written about or it can be read as not watched Ray becuase everybody watches Ray. But everytime you revisit or rewatch or even watch Ray fresh, you get back and want to write about it. Today I watched 'Satranj Ke Khiladi(Chess Players) by Ray. But nay I am not going to write mainly about Chess Players, its again about the enigma that Ray had created the Apu Triology.

Over the span of last month I rewatched that classic. 'Pather Panjali', 'Aparajitho' and 'Apur Sansar' and exactly in the same order. Ray was again mesmerising with his camera and script and above all his absolute appropriateness in handling characterization.

Pather Panjali has been lot written about, lot seen, lot discussed, lot studied and lot enjoyed. Running Durga, Running Apu, Pashi's silence, laughter, Train, fields, death, rain, pond, electric post, ice cream, travelling enternatinment, bead neclace, village innocence, warmth of relationships, poverty, theft everything has been retravelled to empteen number of times....

[Incomplete...Posting the draft as of July 22, 2007]