Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. This film, Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959) form The Apu Trilogy. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents.
He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film critic. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and watching Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film, Bicycle Thieves. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায়) was an Indian filmmaker and author of Bengali fiction and regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema.
