14 Stories That Inspired Satyajit Roy

Book Specification Item Code: NAO899 Author: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Language: English Edition: 2014 ISBN: 9789351361930 Pages: 304 (15 B/W Illustraions) Cover: Paperback Other Details 8.0 inch X 5.0 inch Weight 230 gm Book Description About The Book A rich zamindar dreams that his daughter –in –law is an incarnation of goddess Kali; a housewife steps out of her lower middle –class household into the big city to work as a sales girl; Goopy and Begha fight the evil plans of the king of Shundi to rescue the kingdom of Halla; a group of friends run into a self –proclaimed sage who claims to have been friends with Plato, Jesus and Buddha, Nobbles at the court of Awadh, the chess addicts Mir and Mirza, move to an undisclosed location to play undisturbed as their kingdom falls around them. Short stories were the inspiration for fourteen of master film –maker Satyajit Ray's movies. Every one of them a classic –Devi, Jalsaghar and Sha