Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 13 PART ONE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS 1.A Quiet Friendship with Manikda 17 2.For Love of Satyajit 26 3.On Manikda's 1994 Birthday 32 PART TWO A. FILM DISCUSSIONS 4. The World of Apu, 1955-1959 37 5. Jalsaghar The Music Room, 1958 or Bishwambhar's Portrait 46 6. Aranyer Din Ratri Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969 57 7. Pmtidwandi The Adversary, 1970 66 8. Jana Aranya The Human Jungle, 1975 83 9. Ghare Baire The Home and the World, 1984 88 B. THE HEART TRILOGY 10. Gana Shatru Public Enemy, 1989 93 11. Shakha Proshakka The Branches and the Twigs, 1990 98 12. Agantuk The Stranger, 1991 103 PART THREE TEACHING FILM WITH RAY'S FILMS 13. Definition of a Film 117 14. Editing 132 15. Metz' Large Syntagmatic Category Applied to Three Ray Films 139 PART FOUR THE CINEMA OF SATYAJIT RAY 16. And Then Came Satyajit 151 17. The Discipline of Art 159 18. True-to-life Image-maker 170 19. Humanism in Ray's Cinema 178 20. Satyajit Ray's Faith in Youth 197 PART FIVE INTERVIEW 21. Satyajit Ray on Scriptwriting 207 PART six SATYAJIT RAY AND THE FILM SOCIETIES MOVEMENT IN INDIA 22. What is Wrong with the Indian Film Societies? 225 23. The Film Societies and the New Media 233 CONCLUSION 24. A Journey to the Cave of the Heart: 'Amar Father Panchali' ('My Song of the Road') 251 References 265 Filmography 269 Index 273