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Korean filmmaker Kim Di Duk may be the crowd-puller at the Kolkata Film Festival this year but the serpentine queue outside the Nandan on Friday again bore testimony to Satyajit Ray’s enduring appeal. The screening of Two, the much-awaited and rare short film of Ray, was a roaring success to say the least.
“Ray had a special way of dealing with children, and the film confirms that,” said film scholar Sanjay Mukhopadhyay of Roop Kala Kendra.
The film, restored by the Academy of Motion Pictures of US, is one of the five Ray films to be screened at the festival this year.
“Even widely-available films like Joi Baba Felunath and Teen Kanya have attracted huge crowds. No one comes near Ray in Kolkata,” said Apurba Chatterjee, Chief of News Bureau, Information & Culture department.
