Ray and His music
In ‘Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen’ and ‘Hirak Rajar Deshe,’ Satyajit Ray decided to work with singer Anup Ghoshal for the immortal songs like ‘Dekho Re Nayan Mele,’ ‘Ek Je Chilo Raja’ and ‘Mora Dujanae Rajar Jamai.’
He also used the Carnatic style of music and instruments in these Bengali cult classics.
Teen Kanya’ based on three of Tagore’s short stories, witnessed the birth of Satyajit Ray, the music director. Starting with ‘Teen Kanya’ every Ray film would come with a theme music which would often underline the central plot of his film and would also express the elite motive deep inside the complex structure of his film. This can also be seen in the Feluda film ‘Sonar Kella’ which gives a theme music revolving around the central subject.
Vilayat Khancreated excellent background tunes for ‘Jalshaghar,’ depicting the decaying Bengali zamindari system.
For the background scores, Ray generally used violins, cellos, double bass guitars and not the Indian bamboo flute.
Aranyer din ratri’ ‘pratidwandi’ ‘seemabaddha’ ‘jana aranya’ and all his later film works witnessed Satyajit Ray, the composer, at his best.
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