Soumendu Roy
Soumendu Roy ( Bengali সৌমেন্দু রায় Saumendu Rāẏ ; born February 7, 1933 ) is an Indian cameraman .
Life
Roy began working as a camera assistant for Subrata Mitra in the mid-1950s . Since the recordings of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy, he learned his trade in practice at Mitra without ever attending a film school. From 1959 he worked as an independent cameraman. He shot Satyajit Ray's documentary about Tagore in 1961 and was then a regular principal cameraman for Ray until 1984. He worked out his ideas for the exposure mostly together with Ray and the production designer Bansi Chandragupta . In the early 1990s he worked for Tapan Sinhas Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Buddhadeb Dasguptas Charachar .
He was honored with four National Film Awards , for the Satyajit-Ray films Ashani Sanket , Sonar Kella and Shatranj Ke Khilari in the category Best Cinematography (color film) and for Raja Sens's documentary about Tagore singer Suchitra Mitra in the documentary section / Best camera.
Filmography
- 1959: Marutirtha Hinglaj
- 1961: Three Daughters (Teen Kanya)
- 1961: Rabindranath Tagore
- 1962: Abhijan
- 1964: Two
- 1965: Kapurush - The Coward (Kapurush)
- 1965: Mahapurush
- 1967: Chiriakhana
- 1967: Balika Badhu
- 1968: Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
- 1970: Aranyer Din Ratri
- 1971: Sikkim
- 1972: Seemabaddha
- 1972: The Inner Eye
- 1972: Pratidwandi
- 1973: Far Thunder (Ashani Sanket)
- 1974: Sonar Kella
- 1976: Jana Aranya
- 1976: Bala
- 1977: The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari)
- 1979: Joi Baba Felunath
- 1980: Hirak Rajar Deshe
- 1980: Pikoo
- 1981: Sadgati
- 1984: Home and the World (Ghare Baire)
- 1990: Ek Doctor Ki Maut
- 1993: Suchitra Mitra
- 1993: Protection of the Wings (Charachar)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subrata Mitra (see in filmography: image - Satyajit Ray, Soumendu Roy and Subrata Mitra 1956)
- ↑ satyajitray.org
Web links
- Soumendu Roy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Shooting Star (with photo)
- Interview with Soumendu Roy for The History and Practice of Cinematography in India, November 1999
- Soumendu Roy at youtube.com
- Focus on Ray's cameraman in The Telegraph India on February 3, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roy, Soumendu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1933 |