Page 6 - Seniors Today - April Issue
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Cover Story
Dinodia
Memories of Baba
Filmmaker Sandip Ray tracks back to his father, the legendary Satyajit Ray.
By Shoma A Chatterji
The Scenario around like soft, feathery touches caressing
Satyajit Ray shifted from the 3, Lake Sandip’s mind, refusing to go away.
Temple Road residence to 1/1 Bishop It is a beautiful colonial building, now a
Lefroy off Lee Road in 1970 with his wife heritage site for tourists lined with so much
Bijoya, son Sandip and Ray’s mother-in- greenery that it stands out in a city with
law who lived with the family. Ray lived multistoried buildings and skyscrapers
here till his passing away in 1992. He got so each one looking like the next. It is a batch
attached to this place that he never moved of flats each has an ornate entry with
on. Sandip Ray still lives here with his wife a flight of stairs framed in grilled iron
Lalita and son Souradeep. One should not welcoming you. It earlier housed the
forget the beautiful garden we encounter Russian Consulate and was called Calcutta
in the long corridor at the entrance leading Mansion. The name of the road has been
to the historic study of Ray where some changed to Satyajit Ray Dharani in March
of the world’s best films took birth, and 2016. Sandip did not like this because it had
memories, precious memories, that float already been renamed OC Ganguly Sarani
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