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Amitabha Neil Ray (Film Director/Producer/Writer) is a poet, a writer, a painter and a film director with uncommon talent. He was involved in Film Society Movement in India since he was a student. He was one of the founders of Salt Lake Film Society, of which Academy/National Award Winning film directors like Purnedu Patrea, Goutam Ghosh were his associates. He was involved in making of Purnendu Patrea’s film “Guha Chitra” and “Choto Bokulpurer Jatri”. His poetries were published in reputed magazines like “Desh”, and he has a solo book “Ai Sikorhin Chole Jaya” to his credit. He also published a magazine where works of 7 Academy Award Winning renowned writer/poets were published. Many articles and stories of Ray published in many magazines and newspapers, and currently he is in a process of writing a research-based world history book. As a painter, he showed notable talent, as few of his paintings got top awards, and positive reviews of those paintings published in newspapers like “The Statesman”. He was a direct student of master painter Paritosh Sen. He directed two short documentary films, while in Calcutta, both received critical acclaims, before he moved to USA/Canada. In USA, he was recently involved in making of “Piyalir Password” – the first ever Bengali film entirely shot in USA.

Amitabh Neil Roy’s poetries are recited by many cultural figures all over India in several functions. His “Nirbachito Kobita” (Collection of Poetries) are recited by legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee (Soumitra has received the 'Officier des Arts et Metiers', the highest award for arts given by the French government, and a lifetime achievement award from Italy. In 2004, he accepted the prestigious Padma Bhushan award from the President of India. He has been the subject of a full-length documentary by French director Catherine Berge.), Partha Ghosh and Gouri Ghosh – other two legendary cultural figures from Bengal (Calcutta/Kolkata). This commercial CD will be released to the public in 2009.

Amitabh Neil Ray is currently directing an English feature film “CHARU: Unspoken” – which is modern adaptation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s 1901 story Nostonir, and inspired (not-a-remake) by Oscar Winning film maestro Satyajit Ray’s 1964 classic film Charulata.

Web Site: www.NeilRay.com Web Site: www.CharuTheFilm.com