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Filmmaker · India

Satyajit Ray

Died in 1992

Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on 2 May 1921, the grandson of the writer and printer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury and the son of the poet Sukumar Ray, who died when he was two. A graduate in economics of Presidency College, he studied fine arts at Santiniketan, became an advertising graphic artist, founded the Calcutta Film Society in 1947 and met Jean Renoir. A director, writer and illustrator, he received an Honorary Oscar in 1992 and died in Calcutta on 23 April 1992.

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