‘don’t copy Hollywood, look at reality around you’ _ Chidananda Dasgupta remembers Renoir’s visit to Calcutta and the many different impacts it had on Ray: ’Rays’ particular type of contemplative realism was something born out of the Hollywood narrative, the Italian neorealistic approach to filmmaking, the physical realities of filmmaking, a kind of slowness of tempo, and the French culture vitality which touched his mind… it all combined to form the ground of his filmmaking’
( recorded in Santiniketan, february 1999 )

this short film is branch#8 of a big tree entitled ‘memories of ray’