Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, who is regarded as one of the few great masters of world cinema. Besides film making, he had also written stories and developed his own distinct style of writing. Ray was born in the city of Culcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature on 2nd May of 1921. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian masterpiece Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London.
Ray directed 37 films, includin feature films, documentaries, short films etc.. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer, and film critic. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955) won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, Aparajito(1956) and Apur Sansar(1959) form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scripting, casting, music scores and editing and designed his own credit titles and publicity materials. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Fim Awards, a number of awards at the international film festivals and award ceremonies and an Academy Award in 1922 for Lifetime Achievement. The Government of India honoured him with the Bharat Ratna in 1992
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