The Inner Eye

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Movie
Original title The Inner Eye
Country of production India
original language English , Bengali
Publishing year 1972
length 21 minutes
Rod
Director Satyajit Ray
script Satyajit Ray
production Films Division
music Satyajit Ray
camera Soumendu Roy
cut Dulal Dutta
occupation

The Inner Eye is a short documentary by Satyajit Ray from 1972 about the blind Bengali painter Binode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980).

action

The film shows Mukherjee at work at his place of work on the university campus in Shantiniketan and gives an outline of his biography: his childhood in a Brahmin family and his first drawings, training with the painter Nandalal Bose in Shantiniketan, early sketches and drawings of animals and landscapes, study trip to Japan in 1937, his extensive frescoes and other wall paintings in Hindi-Bhavan and his teaching activities in Shantiniketan, director of the Nepalese National Museum in Kathmandu from 1949, his own school in Masuri and his complete blindness in 1957. Finally, Mukherjee can be seen sculpting wax figures and painting and a number of his works to the music of a morning ragas , played by Nikhil Banerjee on the sitar . The film ends with the faded in words:

Blindness is
a new feeling,
a new experience,
a new state of being.
Binode Behari Mukherjee

background

Satyajit Ray studied art with Mukherjee in Shantiniketan from 1940 to 1942.

literature

  • Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye , Revised Edition 2004, pp. 49–54, 280–282

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