After the screening of the restored print of the 1974 adventure classic, The Golden Fortress or Sonar Kella on 1st May 2024 at Nandan 1, presided over by director Sandip Ray and the cast of the film including Ashok Mukhopadhyay, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Kushal Chakraborty and Santanu Bagchi, the scene intimately shifted to the iconic British architectural Ray House at 1/1 Bishop Lefroy Road, where friends, wellwishers, and the film world gathered to commemorate Ray’s birthday anniversary on 2nd May.
People flooded the floor of the living room stacked on all sides with Ray’s manuscripts, notebooks and other valuables – an archive of veritable delight for the thoughtful ones, the walls also adorned Sri Rama Krishna’s photograph along with Tagore’s and Sukumar Ray’s, other family photographs, rare film posters from Hollywood, Ray’s hand-drawn calligraphy of the film Aparajito flanked by some green plants and creepers making the place a mystical historic museum of film noir and cultural eclectism where both Bengali literarure, music, and painting with the sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart were equally adorned for the evolution of humanity that we are.
The day also witnessed the release of the screen play book of the much appreciated film Aparajito (The Undefeated) by Friends Communications in the presence of director Sandip Ray at his residence. The book titled “Chitranatya O Onanyo” was revealed to the public in the presence of Sandip Ray, Anik Dutta, producer Debojyoti Mishra, music composer and actor Jeetu Kamal. “Sharing his delight, producer Firdausul Hasan says, “Earlier FFSI had released the script of our film Mayurakshi. Aparajito did a record amount of business in cinema, television and OTT. Now many people are interested in the screenplay. We think the film’s screenplay will make the reader more interested in the film” . Published by Dey’s Publishing, this book will feature reviews and shooting stills from different periods of making the film with the script.
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