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1/1 Bishop Lefroy Road was Ray’s home from the 1970s till he died in 1992. He made the Calcutta Trilogy, the two Feluda classics and memorable films like Hirak Rajar Deshe, Ghare Baire, Ganashatru, Shakha Proshakha, Ashani Sanket and Agantuk while living in the second-floor apartment
April 23 marked the 31st death anniversary of the legendary filmmaker
Even though a person of Bachchan's stature flagged the issues of 'civil liberty' and 'freedom', his words went completely unheard.
A marked shift in realising this moral decay on screen is apparent from Aranyer Din Ratri to his Calcutta trilogy — Pratidwandi, Jana Aranya. In Pratidwandi, Dhritiman Chatterjee’s Siddhartha declares that he doesn’t want to leave Kolkata, no matter that he is unemployed, with his mind unable to find an ideological footing. The film coincided with the Naxalite movement that began in Bengal, with the caste system and land rights at its root. Still from ‘Pratidwandi’. It’s no coincidence that the trilogy charted the course of Indira Gandhi’s India as it inched towards Emerg...