PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN SATYAJIT RAY’S FILMS

Abstract

The present study attempts to explore the transition of traditional women characters towards modernity or
how modern they are in Satyajit Ray’s films or are they oscillating between the tradition and modern. Many
scholars have found Nehruvian aspirations and visions for a modern India in Satyajit Ray’s early films
made up to 1964. Further both these men have one thing in common, the aspirations for fusion of east and
west .So, the researcher has chosen APORAJITO and CHARULATA to examine Satyajit Ray’s vision of
transition of 19th century women from tradition to modernity