Reflection On Cinema by Satyajit Ray

Author:Satyajit Ray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-9-3511-6062-5
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Western critic who hopes to do full justice to Devi must be prepared to do a great deal of homework before he confronts the film. He must read up on the cult of the Mother Goddess; on the nineteenth-century renaissance in Bengal and how it affected the values of orthodox Hindu society; on the position of the Hindu bride in an upper-class family, and on the relationship between father and son in the same family. All the turns and twists of the plot grow out of one or more of these factors. The Western critic who hasn’t done his homework will pin his faith on the rational son to save him from the swirls and eddies of an alien value system; but even here the son’s ultimate helplessness will convince him only if he is aware of the stranglehold of Hindu orthodoxy in nineteenth-century Bengal. Devi was widely condemned in India as an attack on Hindu religion when what it really attacked was fanaticism. This is one instance out of many of the obstacles faced by the serious film-maker in India.

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