As a stream of people visited Satyajit Ray’s residence in Kolkata to pay their respects on the film maker’s 95th birth anniversary on Monday, his director son Sandip Ray said he is hunting for an appropriate site for a film complex to be named after Ray.
The film complex will house all memorabilia associated with the auteur’s work for research and public knowledge, Sandip said
“We have seen four or five spots but a proper site is yet to be selected. It might be within the city or its outskirts. Let’s see,” he said.
Speaking in his father’s study in Ray’s 1/1 Bishop Lefroy Road residence, Saindip said they are living at the same address since 1970.
Ray died in 1992 and the road has become synonymous with the director.
It is for this reason, Sandip said, “We did not want renaming of the road and we are happy that the authorities have kept our request.”
However, the road has been modified to the theme of Ray.
“People passing through the area have complimented the changed look. They talk about the posters and characters of baba’s films which have been put up,” he said.
Though Bishop Lefroy Road was not renamed, the adjacent Lee Road has recently been renamed as Satyajit Ray Dharani.
