FILM DIRECTOR

Satyajit Ray

1921 - 1992

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Satyajit Ray (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈʃotːodʒit ˈrae̯] ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema. He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy (1969–1992).[a] Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Satyajit Ray has received more than 7,124,576 page views. His biography is available in 119 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 116 in 2019). Satyajit Ray is the 88th most popular film director (down from 87th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from India (down from 63rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Film Director.

Satyajit Ray is most famous for his films Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar.

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  • 7.1M

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  • 119

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  • 3.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Satyajit Ray ranks 88 out of 2,041. Before him are Dario Argento, Carlos Saura, F. W. Murnau, Peter Brook, Fred Zinnemann, and Wolfgang Petersen. After him are Jim Jarmusch, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Attenborough, William Friedkin, Andrzej Żuławski, and Robert Bresson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Satyajit Ray ranks 26. Before him are Peter Ustinov, Gunnar Nordahl, Paulo Freire, Patricia Highsmith, Nancy Reagan, and Yitzhak Navon. After him are Sugar Ray Robinson, Vasily Smyslov, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Vasily Stalin, Gianni Agnelli, and John Glenn. Among people deceased in 1992, Satyajit Ray ranks 20. Before him are John Cage, Barbara McClintock, Benny Hill, Anthony Perkins, Ernst Happel, and Li Xiannian. After him are Paolo Borsellino, Daniel Bovet, Jan Oort, Peyo, Aribert Heim, and David Bohm.

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In India

Among people born in India, Satyajit Ray ranks 67 out of 1,861. Before him are Premchand (1880), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), and Padmasambhava (717). After him are Julie Christie (1940), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Maharana Pratap (1540), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Sri Aurobindo (1872), and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Satyajit Ray ranks 1. After him are Mahesh Bhatt (1948), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Michael Radford (1946), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), Dara Singh (1928), Guru Dutt (1925), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Shyam Benegal (1934), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), and Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941).

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