Ray’s classics to be screened at India fest in Los Angeles

Twelve Indian films, including Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” and “Agantuk”, and critically -acclaimed “Rudali” and “Salaam Bombay” will be screened at the 7th annual film festival of India at Atlanta from 21st August.

The films have been chosen from the archives of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) to be shown at the High Museum in Los Angeles.

The High’s curator of media arts Linda Dubler partnered with A Agnihotri, director of the Indo-American Film Society, to choose the films represented this year, a statement said.

The inaugural film of the festival is “Dance of the Wind.”

Director Rajan Khosa’s first feature centres on Pallavi, a singer of classical Hindustani music who is unable to perform after the death of her mother.

Ray’s last film was “Agantuk”, an amalgam of family drama and mystery and a commentary on Indian society, which will be the highlight of day two.