Verve – July 2019

(Greg DeLong) #1
RAY REVIVED AND DESIGNED THE COVER FOR SANDESH IN


  1. THE FIRST RAY STORY PUBLISHED IN THE PERIODICAL WAS
    BANKU BABU’R BONDHU (BANKU BABU’S FRIEND), A SC-FI STORY
    ABOUT A FRIENDLY ALIEN.


THE POSTER OF JOI BABA FELUNATH (THE ELEPHANT
GOD, 1979). FREQUENT COLLABORATOR SOUMITRA
CHATTERJEE REPRISED HIS ROLE AS PRIVATE
INVESTIGATOR FELUDA IN THE FILM BASED ON RAY’S
NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME. THE FELUDA DETECTIVE
SERIES BY RAY COMPRISED 35 STORIES IN ALL; THE FIRST
APPEARED IN SANDESH IN 1965, UNDER THE EDITORSHIP
OF POET SUBHASH MUKHOPADHYAY AND RAY.


RAY DESIGNED THE BOOK COVER FOR HIS FIRST FELUDA
NOVEL, BADSHAHI ANGTI (THE EMPEROR’S RING).


SET DESIGN BY RAY FOR DEVI (THE GODDESS, 1960) STARRING
SHARMILA TAGORE, SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE AND CHHABI BISWAS. THE
FILM WON THE PRESIDENT’S GOLD MEDAL FOR BEST FILM.
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