Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker. He is considered one of the masters of cinema world. Ray was born in 1921 in Calcutta in a family of Bengali. He graduated from Calcutta's Presidency College and then Ray went to Shantiniketan University. In 1949 he met the great French director Jean Renoir. He visited Calcutta to scout locations for The River (1950). Renoir encouraged Ray to make films that inspired him to start work on Pather Panchali. Ray has left a cinematic heritage that belongs as much to India as to the world.

Satyajit Ray's films are both cinematic and literary at the same time. Using a simple narrative, usually in a classical format, but greatly detailed and operating at many levels of interpretation. 

He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in the eastern state of India - West Bengal. And yet, his films are of universal interest. They are about things that make up the human race - relationships, emotions, struggle, conflicts, joys and sorrows. 

He has been a tremendous filmmaker whichever movie he has been created are cult movies. He has given incomparable contribution to Indian as well as world cinema.