The Inner Eye
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The Inner Eye is a 1972 short documentary film made by Satyajit Ray on Benode Behari Mukherjee, a blind artist and a teacher from Visva-Bharati University, a university founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan.[1] The twenty minutes documentary features the life and works of Mukherjee in the form of paintings and photographs, starring himself. The documentary covers his journey from childhood till his blindness along with much of his works and features his words, "Blindness is a new feeling, a new experience, a new state of being".[2][3][4] The documentary was awarded as Best Information Film (Documentary) at 20th National Film Awards in 1972.[5]
The Inner Eye | |
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Directed by | Satyajit Ray |
Written by | Satyajit Ray |
Screenplay by | Satyajit Ray |
Based on | Life and works of Benode Behari Mukherjee |
Produced by | Films Division of India |
Starring | Benode Behari Mukherjee |
Narrated by | Satyajit Ray |
Cinematography | Soumendu Roy |
Edited by | Dulal Dutta |
Music by | Satyajit Ray |
Distributed by | Films Division of India |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | English |
Mukherjee is known as the most informed Indian artist of his generation and a legend of modern Asian Art.[6] Born with severe eye problem, being myopic on one eye and blind in the other, Mukherjee lost his sight completely after an unsuccessful cataract operation. However, he continued his work as an artist.
The Academy Film Archive, part of the Academy Foundation, took an initiative to restore Satyajit Ray's films and could successfully restore 19 Ray films. The Inner Eye is yet to be restored but found to be in good condition for the restoration.[7] The film's original script was included in a book named Original English Film Scripts Satyajit Ray, put together by Ray's son Sandip Ray.[8]