Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, music composer, illustrator, lyricist, author, editor.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient.

First Indian to receive an Honorary Academy Award (Oscar).

Second film personality after Charlie Chaplin to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University.

One of the few Indian recipients to have been conferred with all four top civilian awards.

He also revived and reshaped Sandesh magazine.

Founder of the Sukumar Sahitya Samavaya Samity, a non-profit literary cooperative.

Co-founder of the Calcutta Film Society (CFS), a pioneering organization that promoted film appreciation and introduced world cinema to India.

Pioneer in typography, designing four original Roman-script typefaces: Ray Roman, Ray Bizarre, Daphnis, and Holiday Script.

He designed the original cover for Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous book, “The Discovery of India“.
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