Will mark the film maker's 18th death anniversary A retrospective of Satyajit Ray's films opened in the Bangladesh capital on Friday to mark the 18th death anniversary of the master filmmaker. The Indian High Commission has organised Satyajit Retrospective, where where six of Ray's movies will be showcased over seven days at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in downtown Gulshan. Satyajit Ray Introspections by documentary maker K Bikram Singh and Ray's own Kanchenjunga will be screened, as well as the documentary Pa and Ray's all time classics Apur Sansar, Aranyer Dinratri and Seemabaddha. Born on May 2, 1921 in Kolkata in a renowned Bengali family, Ray started his career as a commercial artist. He was drawn into independent filmmaking after he met French filmmaker Jean Renoir and watched the Italian film The Bicycle Thief during a London visit. The master craftsman directed 37 films, including documentaries, features and short films. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer and a film critic. He died on April 23, 1992.

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