PATOL BABU,

Film Star- Satyajit Ray

Our group

consists of:-

• Edwin Paul• Suriya S. Kumar• Grace Henry • Preetha G. Lopez• Gokul. M• Veto Novel• Akshayaa Kumar• Chaithanya Krishna• Shilpa .S• Lejoy Jayamon

Born 2 May 1921Calcutta, Bengal, British India

Died 23 April 1992 (aged 70)Calcutta

Occupation Film director, producer, screenwriter, writer, music director, lyricist

Years active 1950–91

Spouse Bijoya Das (1949–1992)

Signature

Satyajit Ray

Pather Panchali (1955) Aparajito (1956, The Unvanquished) Apur Sansar (1959, The World of Apu) Jalsaghar (1958, The Music Room)

Kanchenjunga (1962)Charulata (1964, The Lonely Wife)

Ashanti Sanket (1973, Distant Thunder)The Chess Players (1977)The Home and The World (1984)

Ganashatru (1989, Public Enemy) Agantuk (1990, The Stranger).

Major contributions

Ray directed thirty-seven films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes film festival. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, cinematography, art direction, editing and designed his own credit titles and publicity material.

• Bharat Ratna• Golden Lion• National Board of

Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film

• Golden Bear• Film fare Award

for Best Director• Sutherland

Trophy• Academy Award

for lifetime achievement

“There's always some room for improvisation.” Satyajit Ray

Awards

Patol

Babu,

Film Star

In Patol Babu Film Star, Satyajit Ray has highlighted the idea that personal satisfaction is more important than financial rewards. According to him, one does a job because he is interested in it rather than because he can get reward from it.

In the story Patol Babu was given only a minor role in the film, as a pedestrian who was only needed to collide into the main actor Chancal Kumar and uttered a sound "oh." Nevertheless, his passion to the job drove him to work hard to give the best performance by rehearsing himself.

Eventually, he had done a terrific job and received praises from Chancal Kumar, "You timed it so well that I nearly passed out.“ and Barren Mullick "Jolly good ! Why, you're quite an actor!" He felt very pleased with his performance and "a total satisfaction swept over him.“ He thought that it did not matter whether he received any payment or not.

"What were twenty rupees when measured against the intense satisfaction of a small job done with perfection and dedication?" Thus, he did not wait to collect his payment. Patol Babu realized that personal satisfaction could not be measured and weighed by money.

To him, personal satisfaction is more crucial than material rewards. Ever since the beginning, Patol Babu did not act in the film because of the money merely.

In contrast, it was because of his passion towards the job that drove him to act in the film. "I'll be paid, of course, but that's not the main thing." He also knew that nobody would appreciate his performance as he is only a minor actor in the film.

Even though Baren Mullick praised him, he would soon forget about it. "But all his labour and imagination he had put into this one shot--were these people able to Appreciate that?"

However ,Patol Babu thought that his own

satisfaction was more salient.

He had proven his

ability and talent in acting

and these worked as a

sort of motivation

to him.

First Patol Babu felt insulted at being given a one-word dialogue. But he recollected his guru Gogon Pakrashi’s words of advise and decided to give an emotional and artistic touch to the dialogue. He began giving the word a different inflection each time he uttered it. After doing it a number of times, he felt to have made an astonishing discovery. He found that if he spoke it in different ways , it carry a different shade of meaning. Aman who was hurt said “OH” in a different way. Despire, broughtforth another kind of “OH”. Sorrow provoked yet another kind. In fact, there were many kinds of “OH’s”. These were short “OH”. The long-drawn “OH”, OH” shouted and “OH” whispered. Then there were high pitched “OH’s” and low-pitched “OH’s

Oh!!