Satyajit Ray and Claude Sautet - Roundtable Discussion

Satyajit Ray and Claude Sautet - Roundtable Discussion - 1981

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@Indira_Ghosh 4 жыл бұрын

3:16 I had completed the first two parts of trilogy prior to this movie. Part one was a great success, but the latter was a box office failure. So, I wanted to try out something different. Even then I didn't have trilogy in my mind. That was when I started wondering how would it be if I make a film about music and dancing as these were widely accepted components of conventional Indian cinema. I decided to follow that direction. Then I found this filmable short story which was written by one of the famous writers. This is a meticulous study of decadent feudalism. Feudalism was started falling apart; nevertheless, he (zamindar) kept on trying to cling on to it. I found the Character of Zamindar and the story tremendously piteous. I thought it would be an interesting film to make. In contrast to the trilogy which was about a remote village and poor people, this story deals with a wealthy man who lives in a huge palace. Although I don't know if I could manage to reach large audience, but this is one film which gave me the sense of satisfaction and pleasure while making, as the character of Zamindar fascinated me enormously, and it gave me the opportunity to use the best Indian classical music of that time. 6:09 Well, this is the only film which was not made with foreign audience in view, and right from the beginning I was very very conscious of the fact that I was going to use the music which would be wholly alien to the western audience. Later when the film came out I was surprised as well as elated to learn that it was a success in USA, in England and also in France. Though I'm not quite sure how did it happen; it still is a mystery to me. 7:12 Well, actually "The Music Room" was composed by our music composers. I, myself started much later. At that time I didn't even know whether I would be able to do it or not. Music was my first love. Even before I fell in love with cinema. I grew up in a musical atmosphere. Everyone on my mother's side could sing, and my grandfather used to play violin and compose music as well. But western classical music was whole new musical world which I discovered completely by accident, and it happened much before I got interested in Indian classical music. There was a gramophone record of a movement of Beethoven's violin concerto in our house. I don't know who bought it. When I was a little boy of six or seven years, I heard it for the first time. I was terribly fond of it. My interest in music began to grow over the years. Eventually it became a serious passion of mine. Afterwards I started to listen to music with a miniature score. At that time I didn't have enough money to buy a complete movement all at once. I could only afford to buy one movement at a time, i.e. , the first movement in the first month, then the second movement in the following month and so on. Thus little by little I built up my own collection. When I started making films I used other composer's composition. I worked with Ravi Shankar on four of my films, and also with Ali Akbar. They were extraordinary musicians but none of them were film composers really. They were virtuosos. When I would tell them that they had to compose a music piece which would run for 17 seconds or 19 seconds or 2 minutes, they wouldn't be able to do that in that manner. Then what I did was I let them compose for 3 or 4 minutes at a stretch and from that I selected the pieces I needed for my film. Almost all the work was done in the editing room. But it was certainly not a right method. By that time they already became world-renowned musician; thereby, they had to travel all over the world for their concerts. At that time I had no one to assist me. So, I decided to try my hand at it; I taught myself. It was difficult at the beginning but gradually I got accustomed.

@thinlet1 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽