Strangely, Ray never spoke about the script or explained why he never shot the documentary. But it's an invaluable treasure and we felt that it should be in the public domain.

Incidentally, Ray was supposed to direct a science-fiction film “The Alien” in the late 1960s which was eventually canceled. The script was loosely based on Bankubabur Bandhu, a Bengali ...

In the 1960s Satyajit Ray wrote a short story, and on being prompted by Arthur C. Clarke, who found it promising, Ray sent the script to Columbia Pict ...