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Satyajit Ray: Through Tradition and Turbulence

Satyajit Ray’s career walks a narrow line between lyrical realism and psychological complexity, attuned to the textures of social change, while tracing the tension between tradition and modernity throughout Indian history.

Devi (1960)

Through the delusional deification of one wealthy patriarch’s daughter-in-law, Satyajit Ray composes a haunting psychological fable in Devi, condemning those who worship her divinity to the ruinous consequences of blind, religious fanaticism.

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