Samapti, the third story in Teen Kanya, stars Aparna Sen and Soumitra Chatterjee. Three moments of liberation experienced by three women protagonists, Mrinmoyee, Charulata and Bimala, are explored through music in Ray’s films. From then on, Ray became an increasingly confident composer, and (with rare exceptions like James Ivory’s Shakespearewallah) made a rule that he would only work for himself. Ray first started with tentative musical experiments in films like Devi (where he wrote the lyrics of a song) but turned to full-time music direction only with Teen Kanya (1961), three short films adapted from Rabindranath Tagore’s stories. The latter became a passion with him in his adolescence, a passion that would last a lifetime and feed into his cinematic genius. Ray’s maternal side, including his mother, was suffused with good singers, and Ray had the good fortune of being exposed to the best of both Eastern and Western classical music at home. He was born in a musical family: his paternal grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (apart from being a pioneering printer and children’s writer), was a composer and versatile musician who played the violin, flute and pakhawaj. Ray had an exceptional musical sense right from his childhood. He decided to compose the music for his own films. Ray used a succession of musical maestros in his early films – Vilayat Khan for Jalsaghar (1958), Ali Akbar Khan for Devi (1960) – but could not continue with the routine as they were all very busy international performers and could not give him the time he needed. ‘The Blue Women’: The women in Anukrti Upadhyay’s short stories are unusual and unforgettable.Eco India: How Bengaluru's citizens are working towards making it water positive.‘Victory City’ lays bare the dangers of re-writing history, especially when sponsored by the state.Bhagat Singh Koshyari is no longer Maharashtra governor, BJP leader Ramesh Bais to replace him.Ramachandra Guha: In RK Laxman’s cartoons, the paradoxes and complications of everyday Indian life.Three generations of the brightest Carnatic violinists have trained under this one legend.Amrit Udyan controversy: BJP’s renaming sprees will leave India with crippling amnesia.Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown has forced many of its elderly onto the streets.World Test Championship standings: India consolidate second spot with comfortable win in Nagpur.How Alexander the Great became Iskandar Zulkarnain, the legendary ancestor of Malay kings. What’s driving the protests against the Centre in Ladakh?.
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