సత్యజిత్ రాయ్ - నివాళి

అద్భుత చిత్ర నిర్మాత, దర్సకుడు సత్యజిత్ రాయ్ జయంతి నేడు (2nd May). ప్రపంచ ఖ్యాతి పొందిన ఈ చిత్ర దర్శకుని గురించి వికీపీడియా వారు ఇలా వ్రాస్తున్నారు -  పొన్నాడ మూర్తి

Satyajit Ray - (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker who worked prominently in Bengali cinema and who has often been regarded as one of the great directors of world cinema. Ray was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to a Bengali family and started his career as a junior visualiser. 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 made his directorial debut in 1955 withPather Panchali and directed 36 films, comprising 29 feature films, five documentaries and two short films.
Ray received numerous awards at international film festivals and elsewhere, including several Indian National Film Awards and an honorary Academy Award at the64th Academy Awards in 1992.  Ray was awarded India's highest award in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, in 1984 and India's highest civilian award,Bharat Ratna, in 1992