Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Kupfuura: Muna 1943, Ray akatanga kushanda paD.J. Keymer, sangano rokushambadzira rinotungamirirwa neBritain, so"mupepeti muduku wezviratidziro", achiwana rupees makumi masere pamwedzi. Kunyange zvazvo aifarira kugadzira mifananidzo (graphic design) uye ainyanya kubatwa zvakanaka, pakanga pane kusawirirana pakati pevashandi veBritain neIndia vekambani. Vanhu vokuBritain vaibhadharwa zviri nani, uye Ray ainzwa kuti "vatengi vacho kazhinji vaiva mapenzi". Gare gare, Ray akashandawo kuSignet Press, imba itsva yokutsikirira yakatangwa naD. K. Gupta. Gupta akakumbira Ray kuti agadzire mapepa emabhuku aizobudiswa neSignet Press uye akamupa rusununguko rwakakwana rwokugadzira. Ray akagadzira mabutiro emabhuku mazhinji, kusanganisira Jibanananda Das's Banalata Sen, uye Rupasi Bangla, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Chander Pahar, Jim Corbett's Maneaters of Kumaon, uye Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery yeIndia. Akashanda pabhuku revana rinonzi Pather Panchali, bhuku rechiBengali rakanyorwa naBibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, rakatumidzwa kuti Aam Antir Bhepu (The mango-seed whistle). Pakugadzira kavha yacho nokuenzanisira bhuku racho, Ray akafurirwa zvikuru nebasa racho. Akashandisa sechinhu chemufirimu wake wekutanga, uye akaratidza mifananidzo yake sekupfura mufirimu rake rekutanga. Pamwe chete naChidananda Dasgupta nevamwe, Ray akatanga Calcutta Film Society muna 1947. Vairatidza mafirimu akawanda okune dzimwe nyika, akawanda acho ayo Ray aiona uye aidzidza zvakadzama. Akaita ushamwari navaGIs veAmerica vakanga vakagoverwa muCalcutta mukati meHondo yeNyika II, avo vaimuzivisa nezvemafirimu okupedzisira eAmerica airatidzwa muguta. Akasvika pakuziva mushandi weRAF, Norman Clare, uyo akagovana chido chaRay chemafirimu, chess uye kumadokero mimhanzi yekare. Muna 1949, Ray akaroora Bijoya Das, hama yake yekutanga uye mudiwa wenguva refu. Vaviri ava vakava nomwanakomana, Sandip, uyo zvino ari mutungamiriri wemafirimu. Mugore rimwe chetero, mutungamiriri wechiFrench Jean Renoir akauya kuCalcutta kuzopfura firimu rake rinonzi The River. Ray akamubatsira kuwana nzvimbo dzomumaruwa. Ray akaudza Renoir nezvepfungwa yake yokurekodha Pather Panchali, iyo yakanga yava nenguva yakareba iri mupfungwa dzake, uye Renoir akamukurudzira muchirongwa chacho. Muna 1950, D.J. Keymer akatumira...  Mubvunzo: Ndiani akabudisa mabhuku acho?
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