"What Indian cinema needs today is not more gloss (unlike Hollywood films), but more imagination, more integrity, and more intelligent appreciation of the limitations of the medium...

Satyajit Ray

What others said about him......


"His orchestratian of colour is painterly ... colour is not mere embellishment. It has greater purpose; it has identity."

"What is wrong about showing India's poverty ? Everyone knows that we are a poor country. The question is : are we Indians sensitive to our poverty or insensitive to it ? Satyajit Ray has shown it with an extraordinary sense of beauty and sensitiveness."

"Ray knows exactly what he wants. He has experience in western music, particularly the piano."