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Sandip Ray
Sandip Ray
The Rays had always shared a great relationship with Kishore Kumar. The genius had financially helped Satyajit Ray during the making of Pather Panchali (1955) and had not charged a penny for singing Ami chini go chini tomare for Charulata. Sandip used to idolise Kishore and had always wanted to do a work on him. During Kishore's lifetime, he had also spoken about shooting a documentary with him. Things did not materialise because the iconic singer had an extremely busy schedule before he passed away suddenly in 1987. Post his demise, some works were released but they did not ...
Filmography
- Zindagi Ek Safar (1988)
Did You Know?
This is the only documentary that Sandip had directed. It was first released in the VHS format. The original producer was Clarion and the documentary was sponsored by Bata. It was shot in the digital format. However, the documentary was long out of circulation. Subsequently when it came out again in the DVD format by another company, there were some copyright issues for which certain songs had to be dropped from the documentary. Sandip is not particularly fond of this version. Fortunately, he has a personal copy of the first edition. Some private collectors, who had bought the original VHS, might have digitised them too.