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Detailed explanation-1: -Bhaskar Chattopadhyay is an author, translator and screenwriter who lives and works in Bangalore, India. His translations include 14: Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray (HarperCollins, 2014) and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Aranyak (Penguin Random House, 2022).

Detailed explanation-2: -’The Cinema of Satyajit Ray’, published by Westland, is written by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay. The book claims to be an encyclopaedic coverage of Ray’s cinema including an essay on each film he’s made, as well as his documentaries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ray made his directorial debut in 1955 with Pather Panchali and directed 36 films, comprising 29 feature films, five documentaries, and two short films.

Detailed explanation-4: -Satyajit Ray, (born May 2, 1921, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India-died April 23, 1992, Calcutta), Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (1955; The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Stranger (Agantuk) The final film from master filmmaker Ray is a parable of greed and mistrust, set in Calcutta, and following the fates of a family who receive a letter from an uncle who left home some 30 years previously.