The actors, actresses, and technicians who worked with the legendary filmmaker Ray were felicitated at an event Satyajit er Shilpira organized at 27^th Kolkata International Film Festival.

Sound Designer Anup Mukhopadhyay, camera person Anil Ghosh, Hirak Sen, Tarapada Bandopadhyay, Barun Chanda, Manoj Mitra, Ranjit Mallick, Mamata Shankar, Kushal Chakraborty, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Chandana Bandopadhyay were felicitated at the beginning of the program.

Nairanjana Maitra and Sayantika felicitated the esteemed guests.

According to Manoj Mitra, Ray was a visionary of a different level.

Ranjit Mallick highlighted the fact that Ray gave great freedom to the actors. Even after 100 years, people will have the same level of curiosity revolving around the films of Ray.

Kushal Chakraborty said, “He could mix really well with the child actors. Hence you will see that the child actors in his films performed in a fantastic manner”.

Siddhartha Chatterjee said that the locals in Jaisalmer were grateful to Satyajit Ray for putting Jaisalmer on the tourist map.

Sandip Ray, Raj Chakraborty, Arindam Sil, and journalist Gautam Bhattacharya took forward the program and interacted with the artists and technicians who worked with Ray.

Ray and his works have no end. And this was aptly highlighted in the discussion that took place at Satyajit er Shilpira.

Priyanka Dutta