SRMS is a non-profit organization dedicated to an

appreciation of quality mainstream, international, and

independent films.
The Satyajit Ray Memorial Society believes in the power
and beauty of film. SRMS started with an agenda to
study the Cinema of Satyajit Ray. Over the years SRMS
observed that filmmakers continually take new
approaches to presenting the visual image, film has
taken less than a century to grow into one of the most
potent mediums for self-expression.
This young art form combines technology and human
imagination to create a formidable cultural force
worldwide. Film not only moves us emotionally, but also
alters our everyday lives as an impetus for the study
and criticism of history and society.
The cinemas potential to transform as well as reflect
society in all its diversity is what today Satyajit Ray
Memorial Society aims to recognize and realize.
The society comprises of people from diverse
backgrounds in Bangalore and is not affiliated in any
way with any Satyajit Ray Trust or the Ray family.
The society has been in existence since 2012 and has
been regularly organising informal study meetings and
discussions on Ray and in collaboration with various
educational institutions and bodies organised
screenings of Rays masterpieces.
The society has regularly felicitated nationally
acclaimed film direc tors and organised discussions and
screenings on humanistic cinema. The society has
organized country specific, theme specific & Director
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specific, informal Film screening sessions in

collaboration with film societies and educational
institutions.

The Society has organised screenings of Satyajit Ray

and many young and veteran Film Directors :

Adoor Gopalakrishnan( India-Kerala),

Girish Kasaravalli( India-Karnataka),
Gurudutt( India-Mumbai),
Shyam Benegal ( India-Mumbai),
Mrinal Sen(India-Kolkata),
Tapan Sinha( India-Kolkata),
K balachander( India-Tamil Nadu),
G Aravindan(India-Kerala),
Mani Kaul( India-Mumbai),
Anand Patwardhan( India-New Delhi)
Akira Kurosawa
Paul Cox (Australia),
Humberto Solas (Cuba)
Lester James Peries (Sri Lanka),
Jiri Menzil (Czech),
Sumitra Peries (Sri Lanka),
Sandor Sara (Hungary),
Gur Bentwich &Zsuzsa Boszormenyi(Hungary)
Amanda Fox(Australia),
Jonathan Paz , M. Bregman, Doron Eran & Ms Idit
Sechori(Israel).
Juan Fischer (Columbia),
Isamat Ergashev(Uzbekistan),
MS Yakiki Takayama(Japan)
Roland Plaus (Germany)
Rafi Bukaee(Israel)

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Vinko Bresen(Croatia)
Eddy Terstall (Netherlands)
Adak Drabinski(Poland)
Meted Pevec(Slovenia)
Kathryn Millard(Australia)
Francoise Rossier, Erich Schmid & Narian
Spandouk(Switzerland)
Mrs& Mr Glorgos Skouran(Greece)
Tarique Masud ,Catherine Masud and Tauquir
Ahmed(Bangladesh),
Past Collaborations:

SPICMACAY
International School of Business and Research
Institute of Business Management & Research
St Josephs College of Arts
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru

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Bimal Roy, the Silent Master of Indian Cinema piloted

the golden age of cinema in the 1940s. A socially
committed director, his films had the power to inspire
and move audiences. The Satyajit Ray Memorial Society
on 9th January 2016 plans to remember the works of
Bimal Roy. The director and his work would be
remembered.
One of the most acclaimed Hindi film directors of all
time; he was famous for his romantic-realist
melodramas that took on important social issues while
still being entertaining.
Roy made his mark with his poetic screenplays and use
of emotions in films like "Parineeta", "Devdas", "Do
Bigha Zameen" and "Bandini", at a time when creative
brilliance resonated in virtually every aspect of
filmmaking.
By 1966, the year of his death, he had directed more
than 20 films, most of which got widespread
acclaim.Bimal Roy passed away at the age of 55 on 7th
January 1966, leaving behind an unmatched and
To highlight Bimal Royss status as a cineaste and filmlover over his status as a parallel filmmaker, Satyajit
Ray Memorial Society and the National Gallery of
Modern Art , Bangalore and are collaborating to
organise a day long programme to remember Bimal Roy
on his 50th death anniversary at NGMA Bangalore
Auditorium, on the 9th of January 2016.
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The programme proposes to feature his most impactive

work Do Bigha Zameen, alongwith
a short film by
Doordarshan in the Portrait of a Director Series.
Four decades after his death, Bimal Roys stature as one
of Indias foremost filmmakers is on the decline, thanks
to a new generation of cinema goers who have never
watched his films.
Most of Roys classics were made in the 1950s and 60s,
the golden era of Bollywood, but their screenings are
now limited to retrospectives at film festivals.
Satyajit Ray Memorial Society is standing by Rinki Roy,
and Bimal Roy Memorial in taking up cudgels on the
directors behalf who hopes to keep alive the legacy of
Roy and his contemporaries.
Satyajit Ray Memorial Society wants to make the young
audience know about the classics that exist.
The vision behind the programme is to represent as a
whole Roys career both in terms of its various phases.
From the imp active and emotionally charged charged
films of the middle and his assimilation into the larger
culture of the world in the final and the various ideas
contained within it.
The film will be discussed at length in a panel discussion
that will feature contemporary film makers who have
studied the works of Roy actively for the past so many
years and are keen to preserve Roys artistic legacy.
The list includes Mr. Girish Kasaravalli , Mr Girish Karnad
, Mr KM Chaitanya, Mr Prakash Belwadi. We propose to
involve them in a discussion on Bimal Roys Cinema.

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The screening will also be accompanied by an

exhaustive photo exhibition which will have on display a
wide selection of stills from the making of the classic..

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Proposed Schedule:
Saturday, January 9th 2016
Introduction and Welcome
Portrait of a Director: A Doordarshan Short Film
Skype Interview : Ms Rinku Roy, Founder Bimal Roy
Memorial
( 15 mins)
Panel Discussion : Relevance of Bimal Roy in todays
Cinema ( 1 hour)
Tea Break
Screening of : Do Bigha Zameen 2 hrs
Vote of Thanks

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