The contours of affinity: Satyajit Ray and the Tagorean legacy
Sengoopta, Chandak (2012) The contours of affinity: Satyajit Ray and the Tagorean legacy. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 35 (1), pp. 143-161. ISSN 0085-6401.
Abstract
This paper seeks to demonstrate the complexities of the Tagorean legacy through a re-examination of Tagore's influence on the filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Reappraising Ray's brief period at Santiniketan and some of his most celebrated engagements with Tagore, the essay argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, Ray was not a wholehearted follower of Tagore but a critical and creative interlocutor. The nuanced interpretation of his relationship with Tagore that Ray himself proffered in his last film Agantuk (1991), the essay suggests, is more persuasive than the exaggerated notions of Ray's Tagoreanism propagated by the vast majority of his biographers and critics.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Tagorean legacy, ‘The Postmaster’, Teen Kanya, Charulata, Agantuk, Tagore and cinema, Ray and Tagore |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2012 07:16 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:57 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4763 |
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