He was conceived on 2nd of May 1921, one of the renowned Indian Filmmaker, graphic artist, author, screenwriter, and music composer, widely been recognized to be one of the phenomenal filmmakers existed in the 20th century. Calcuttainto was his city where he was conceived in a Bengali Brahmo family and a descent of Bengali Kayastha, who was outstanding in the field of literature and arts. Initiating its career as a monetary artist, he opts for an independent making of the film post the encounter with Jean Renoir, a French Filmmaker and watched Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves in the year of 1948 while he visited London, U.K.

Ray coordinated 36 films, including highlight movies, documentaries, and shorts. He was additionally a fiction essayist, distributor, artist, calligrapher, music writer, visual planner and film critic. He composed a few short stories and books, implied principally for youthful kids and youngsters. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the researcher in his sci-fi stories, are prominent anecdotal characters made by him. He was granted a privileged degree by Oxford University.

Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven global prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document grant at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, alongside Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959) comprised The Apu Trilogy. He did the scripting, scoring, casting and altering, and planned his own particular credit titles and reputation material. He got numerous real honors in his profession, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Bear, a Golden Lion, 2 Silver Bears, some of the extra honors at universal film celebrations and honor functions, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India regarded him with the Bharat Ratna, its most elevated regular citizen grant, in 1992.