Apu-r Katha..
Saal ta 1992. Ekattor bochorer ek kormojogee'r dheerghyo bornonoy jiboner shika praye nibhu nibhu. Mrityu sojjaye sayito royechen tini, othocho tokhoni pashchatyo totha sara biswa tNake niye, tNar sristi ke niye unmadito, bismito o shihorito.Academy Award nite protham ebong ekhono porjonto ekmatro bharotiyo sedin manche uposthit thakte parenni thiki, kintu sedin biswa chalachitra-jogoter sorboccho asore sobar hRidye chiro-ason pete niyechilen Sree Satyajit Ray. Tini e amake Apu'r moto ek ononto jiggasha-moy jogote protham probesh koriyechilen. Tini e shikhiyechen cinema manei obhineta obhinetri der poshak -ashak dekha ar obeg e knede bharasho noy, cinema ekta chobi aNakar canvas er motoi, cinema holo shilpir sorbottom kolpona, cinema ekta jibon-aalekkhyo! Tobe sudhu chalachitrakar hisebei Satyajit Ray'r kaj ke seemito korle bhul hobe. Tini Sahityik, tini chitro-shilpi, sangeet-boddha, sorbopori ekjon bishal maaper manush.Sree Upendrakishore Ray (Roychowdhury)'r nati, Sukumar Ray 'r chele Satyajit banglar ek oti protibhashali poribarer protinidhi. ekatha amra sobai jani. kintu anekei jeta jani na seta holo, Satyajit Ray'er jonmer pore porei Sukumar Ray prochondo asustho hoye poren.Thakur-da ke jonmer agei hariyechilo Satyajit. Baba keo se beshidin payeni. Babar mrityur tin bochorer modhye poittrik byebsha o bhite chere mayer haat dhore Satyajit mamar bari chole ashe. Tokhon tnar ma selai karjo kore sansar kharoch chalaten!! Sutarong 'sonar chamoch mukhe diye' Satyajit er chelebela kateni. Jara Satyajit er "Jokhon choto chilam" boi ta porecho, tara nischoi pore thakbe tNar chelebelar kichu kichu katha.
School jibone ebong aro joralo bhabe college jibone , Stayajit ke cinema'r maayajaal aasthe- pristhe joriye dhore. Presidency College Science o Economics niye porte dhukleo Satyajit er mon pore thakto Ernst Lubitsch, John Ford, Frank Capra, William Wyler 'der niyei.Sei somoy thekei Western music take akristho kore. Academic career chere beriye ashen Satyajit, commercial artist hobar porikolpona koren,tader poribare tokhon takar etotai darkar chilo.
1940 saale Satyajit Vishwa-Bharati Viswabidyalaya, Shantiniketan e jogdan koren. Kolkata sohorer chele Satyajit gram banglar matir kacha kachi pouche jan ei prothom. Poroborti kale sei drishyo dhora poreche tar camerar lens e.Tobe Satyajit er Shantiniketan er jibon beshidiner chilo na. 1941 e Rabindranath Thakur(Satyajit er thakur'dar ghonistho bondhu chilen)-er mrityu ghote.Shantiniketan er badhadhora jiboner majhe Satyajit-er mon Kolkata tatha nagor-jibon,tar ma,tar priya Bijoya (Bijoya tNar mamato bon chilen), tar jokhon tokhon cinema dekhte jaoyar swadhinota, gan shona...ei sab kichur jonnei byekul hoye othe. 1942 e Japan jedin Kolkataye protham boma phele sedin-i Satyajit Kolkata phire ashen. tobe oi du-bochore kichudin Rabi-Thakurer sannidhyo, Binode Behari Mukherjee'r moto shikkhok er kache Bharatiyo Chitra-shipler path neoya,German Jew,ek English er adhyapoker sathe pashchya Sangeet o Cinema' r alochona, sorbopori gram banglar matir kole katano ei duti bochor Satyajit ke poroborti kaale ek dokkho shilpi rupe jogoter kache toiri kore diyechilo.
1943 theke 1950 ei somoy ta Satyajit Graphic Designer o Typographer hisebe kaj korten. 1955 te Pather Panchali chobi ti sompurno hobar porei tini ei kaj chere sorbo-somoyer jonne(full-time) chitra-porichalok hisebe kaj suru koren.
1949 saale Jean Renoir Kolkataye ashen 'The River' chobir shooting korte. Satyajit Renoir sathe dekha koren o take chobir location nirbachone sahajyo koren. tobe 'The River' er shooting kaale Satyajit deshe chilen na, kaje gechilen London e. 16 diner jolpothe London sofore tini ekti note-boi te likhte thaken Pather Panchali'r pandulipi.London-e 6 mash thaka kalin anek cinema dekhen Ray. Tarmodhye sobcheye probhabito hoyechilen Vittorio De Sica'er Bicycle Thieve dekhe. Poroborti kaale 'Our Films, Their Films', boi-tite tini likhechilen- "All through my stay in London, the lessons of Bicycle Thieves and neo-realist cinema stayed with me".
Apu-r poth chola holo suru....
Pather Panchalir jonne kono producer khuje panni tini. Prothome hothash hoyechilen tobuo tini shooting suru korlen.27 October 1952, Apu-Durga'r sei bikhyeto "discovery of train by Apu and his sister Durga in the field of Kaash flowers" drishyotir bastab rup-dan koren Satyajit Ray. Tar jiboner prothom shot, tNake itihasher pataye stan kore diyechilo sedin! 1955 saale sab protikulata ke joy kore Kaalo-joyee Cinema 'Pather Panchali' mukti pelo. Cinemar jotote jonmo ghotlo ek notun debotar(camera haate Debotai chilen tini).
Tarpor poreo anek badha bipotti asheche Satyajit Ray er jibone.Tnar prapyo somman tini arjon korechilen anek pore. Amra take kador korechi tnar jiboner antim logne.Majhe majhe mone hoy Satyajit Ray jodi sudhu Sahiyik hoten, taholeo tNake amra mone rakhtam, etotai bolistho chilo tar lekha. Phelu-da ba Professor Sanku, kimba tNar sristi bibhinno golper choritrogulo.... 'Khagam' 'Anukul', 'Mriganka Babu' era sobai anache kanache lukiye ache amar chelebelar.Ekhono tototai tortaja lage boigulo porte bosle.
Pather Panchali theke Agantuk.....eibhabei ami dekhi Satyajit Ray -ke. Apu rupe Satyajit ashechilo Bangalir ghore ghore, majher somoy ta te choto Apu boro holo ebong biswa joy korlo. Angantuk 'er Manomohan Mitra, seo to Satyajit Ray nijei.... jini 'Nemo', mane 'no one'. kintu sobai ke kadiye ebong anek kichu shikhiye jini chole gelen................!!
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