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* TheFaceOfTheBand: Among Western filmmakers and critics Ray is ''the'' most pre-eminent filmmaker to come out of India, while contemporaries such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak Ritwik Ghatak]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen Mrinal Sen]] (as well as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India#Golden_Age_of_Indian_cinema decades]]'' of Indian filmmakers who preceded him) receive little-to-no attention outside of India. To give a bit of perspective, of the [[https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?c=India&p=1 fifteen Indian films]] in the Creator/CriterionCollection, ''nine'' are by Ray.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: His work with Pandit Music/RaviShankar, who scored a number of his films, proved hugely influential with the Beatles. Ray was no slouch in the music department either, as his score for ‘’Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’’ shows.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: His work with Pandit Music/RaviShankar, who scored a number of his films, proved hugely influential with the Beatles. Ray was no slouch in the music department either, as his score for ‘’Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’’ shows.
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* TheFaceOfTheBand: Among Western filmmakers and critics Ray is ''the'' most pre-eminent filmmaker to come out of India, while contemporaries such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak Ritwik Ghatak]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen Mrinal Sen]] (as well as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India#Golden_Age_of_Indian_cinema decades]]'' of Indian filmmakers who preceded him) receive little-to-no attention outside of India. To give a bit of perspective, of the [[https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?c=India&p=1 fifteen Indian films]] in the CriterionCollection, ''nine'' are by Ray.

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* TheFaceOfTheBand: Among Western filmmakers and critics Ray is ''the'' most pre-eminent filmmaker to come out of India, while contemporaries such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak Ritwik Ghatak]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen Mrinal Sen]] (as well as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India#Golden_Age_of_Indian_cinema decades]]'' of Indian filmmakers who preceded him) receive little-to-no attention outside of India. To give a bit of perspective, of the [[https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?c=India&p=1 fifteen Indian films]] in the CriterionCollection, Creator/CriterionCollection, ''nine'' are by Ray.
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* TheFaceOfTheBand: Among Western filmmakers and critics Ray is ''the'' most pre-eminent filmmaker to come out of India, while contemporaries such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak Ritwik Ghatak]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen Mrinal Sen]] (to say nothing of the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India#Golden_Age_of_Indian_cinema decades]]'' of Indian filmmakers who preceded him) receive little-to-no mention. To give a bit of perspective, out of the [[https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?c=India&p=1 fifteen Indian films]] in the CriterionCollection, ''nine'' of them are by Ray.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: For most of his career, outside Bengal, his movies were more popular and liked by independent film-makers in America, England and Japan, than in the rest of India. Creator/SalmanRushdie (who is from UsefulNotes/{{Mumbai}}) noted that he had to go to London to see his movies and appreciate how great Ray was. Ray is especially popular in America, among the likes of Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/EliaKazan, Ira Sachs and Creator/WesAnderson (his film Film/TheDarjeelingLimited is full of homages to Ray and features Ray's own music from a number of his movies).

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* TheFaceOfTheBand: Among Western filmmakers and critics Ray is ''the'' most pre-eminent filmmaker to come out of India, while contemporaries such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak Ritwik Ghatak]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen Mrinal Sen]] (to say nothing of (as well as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India#Golden_Age_of_Indian_cinema decades]]'' of Indian filmmakers who preceded him) receive little-to-no mention. attention outside of India. To give a bit of perspective, out of the [[https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?c=India&p=1 fifteen Indian films]] in the CriterionCollection, ''nine'' of them are by Ray.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: For most of his career, outside Bengal, his movies were more popular and liked by independent film-makers in America, England and Japan, than in the rest of India. Creator/SalmanRushdie (who is from UsefulNotes/{{Mumbai}}) noted that he had to go to London to see his movies and appreciate how great Ray was. Ray is especially popular in America, among the likes of Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/EliaKazan, Ira Sachs and Creator/WesAnderson (his film Film/TheDarjeelingLimited is full of homages to Ray and features Ray's own music from a number of his movies).
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* TheFaceOfTheBand: Among Western filmmakers and critics Ray is ''the'' most pre-eminent filmmaker to come out of India, while contemporaries such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak Ritwik Ghatak]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen Mrinal Sen]] (to say nothing of the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India#Golden_Age_of_Indian_cinema decades]]'' of Indian filmmakers who preceded him) receive little-to-no mention. To give a bit of perspective, out of the [[https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?c=India&p=1 fifteen Indian films]] in the CriterionCollection, ''nine'' of them are by Ray.
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* AmericansHateTingle: “Hate” may be a strong word, but ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’, while a huge hit in its native West Bengal, is probably his least-liked movie among Western critics.

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* AmericansHateTingle: “Hate” may be a strong word, but ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’, ''GoopyGyneBaghaByne'', while a huge hit in its native West Bengal, is probably his least-liked movie among Western critics.
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* PanderingToTheBase: Was criticized by some Indians for making movies solely for the West and showing poor people in villages. The Bollywood actress Nargis (who later became a MP) criticized him for not showing India's development story.

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* PanderingToTheBase: Was criticized by some A number of Indians (including fellow filmmakers such as Mrinal Sen) accused Ray of exporting a glamorized image of Indian poverty to Western audiences, while failing to advocate explicitly for making movies solely for the West and showing poor people in villages. any kind of political change. The Bollywood actress Nargis (who later became a MP) criticized him for not showing India's development story. story[[note]]For what its worth, modern-day critics consider these accusations overblown. While the Apu trilogy remains Ray's most well-known work in the West, his filmography as a whole covers a wide range of topics, such as India's rising urban middle-class (''Mahanagar''), the decline of the aristocracy in the wake of independence (''Jalsaghar''), and even Indian-style fantasy (''GoopyGyneBaghaByne'')[[/note]].

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: His work with Pandit Ravi Shankar, who scored a number of his films, proved hugely influential with the Beatles. Ray was no slouch in the music department either, as his score for ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’ shows.
* HeAlsoDid: Supposedly, ETTheExtraTerrestriel is based off an unproduced script by Ray, titled ‘’The Alien’’.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Ray made ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’ after his son requested he make something less “grim and adult”

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: His work with Pandit Ravi Shankar, Music/RaviShankar, who scored a number of his films, proved hugely influential with the Beatles. Ray was no slouch in the music department either, as his score for ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’ ‘’Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’’ shows.
* HeAlsoDid: Supposedly, ETTheExtraTerrestriel GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: For most of his career, outside Bengal, his movies were more popular and liked by independent film-makers in America, England and Japan, than in the rest of India. Creator/SalmanRushdie (who is based off from UsefulNotes/{{Mumbai}}) noted that he had to go to London to see his movies and appreciate how great Ray was. Ray is especially popular in America, among the likes of Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/EliaKazan, Ira Sachs and Creator/WesAnderson (his film Film/TheDarjeelingLimited is full of homages to Ray and features Ray's own music from a number of his movies).
* MainstreamObscurity: Within India, Ray is remembered as "That guy who won the Lifetime Achievement Award" and
an unproduced script Indian-film-maker Westerners like but his films remain obscure outside his home state and film society cliques. The language barrier is one problem (Bengali is not a common language outside his state unlike Hindi which is spoken across India).
* PanderingToTheBase: Was criticized
by Ray, titled ‘’The Alien’’.
some Indians for making movies solely for the West and showing poor people in villages. The Bollywood actress Nargis (who later became a MP) criticized him for not showing India's development story.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Ray made ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’ ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' after his son requested he make something less “grim and adult”

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* HeAlsoDid: Supposedly, ETTheExtraTerrestriel is based off an unproduced script by Ray, titled ‘’The Alien’’.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: His work with Pandit Ravi Shankar, who scored a number of his films, proved hugely influential with the Beatles. Ray was no slouch in the music department either, as his score for ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’ shows.
* HeAlsoDid: Supposedly, ETTheExtraTerrestriel is based off an unproduced script by Ray, titled ‘’The Alien’’.Alien’’.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Ray made ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’ after his son requested he make something less “grim and adult”
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* AmericansHateTingle: “Hate” may be a strong word, but ‘’GoopyGyneBaghaByne’’, while a huge hit in its native West Bengal, is probably his least-liked movie among Western critics.
* HeAlsoDid: Supposedly, ETTheExtraTerrestriel is based off an unproduced script by Ray, titled ‘’The Alien’’.

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