The Inner Eye

• Satyajit Ray: spokesman

The Inner Eye is a short documentary by Satyajit Ray from 1972 about the blind Bengali painter Binode Behari Mukherjee ( 1904-1980 ).

Action

The film shows Mukherjee at work at his workplace on the university campus at Shantiniketan and brings an outline of his biography: its childhood in a Brahmin family and his first drawings, training for painters Nandalal Bose in Shantiniketan, early sketches and drawings of animals and landscapes, study trip to Japan in 1937, his extensive frescoes and other murals in Hindi Bhavan and his teaching in Shantiniketan, director of the Nepalese National Museum in Kathmandu in 1949, his own school in Mussoorie and his total blindness in 1957. seen Finally Mukherjee in the forming of wax figures and painting and a number of his works to the music of a Morgenragas, played by Nikhil Banerjee on sitar. The film ends with the displayed words:

Background

Satyajit Ray studied at Shantiniketan 1940-1942 Mukherjee at art.