Satyajit Ray film fest in Moscow Jalsaghar, Charulata, Aranyer Din Ratri and more masterpieces to be screened

A week-long retrospective of legendary Indian film director Satyajit Ray's masterpieces opened in Moscow November 12 with the screening of his Jalsaghar (1958).

Moscovites will also be able to view the Indian maestro's Berlin film festival award-winner Charulata and other great works including Aranyer Din Ratri, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Heerak Rajar Deshe and Ghare-Baire at the festival organised at the prestigious Charlie Chaplain Hall of the Moscow Cinema Museum. Incidentally, Ray won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992.

This is the first major retrospective of Ray's films in Russia since the USSR fragmentation in 1991 and is seen as part of the cultural build-up ahead of President Vladimir Putin's India visit next month.

PTI