Set in time: Through Nemai Ghosh's photo archives

84-year-old Nemai Ghosh is best known as the photo-biographer of Satyajit Ray

Dec 29, 2017, 06:21 IST1 min

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On the sets of City of Joy, directed by Roland Joffé in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1992, Ghosh photographed the film’s three protagonists—Om Puri, Shabana Azmi and Patrick Swayze—as they sat talking during a break from work

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Ray was a common mentor for Ghosh and actor Sharmila Tagore. Here she is sitting on a black Ambassador while on a break during the shooting of Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri in 1969

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Girija Devi (far left), renowned vocalist of the Seniya and Benaras gharanas, and Kishori Amonkar (far right) of the Jaipur gharana perform in the mid-1990s on the occasion of Dol Purnima at the residence of businessman Harshavardhan Neotia, in Calcutta

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Ustad Bismillah Khan photographed at his home in Varanasi, in 1989. Ghosh was accompanying filmmaker Goutam Ghose, who was making a documentary on Khan

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Smita Patil, on the sets of Abhinetri, at Calcutta’s Indrapuri Studio in 1986-87. Produced by Satyajit Ray and directed by his son Sandeep, Abhinetri was part of a television series called Satyajit Ray Presents, based on his short stories

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Filmmaker and actor Aparna Sen, in 1981 at Calcutta’s Indrapuri Studio, on the sets of 36 Chowringhee Lane, for which she won the National Film Award for Best Direction

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Rekha, shot on the sets of a Govind Nihalani film in 1982

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