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cinej-656	Chakraborty, Ayush	Calcutta Through Different Lenses: Revisiting India in Jean Renoir’s The River and Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy	2024	21	.pdf	application/pdf	5909	263	54	This landscape, mostly wrought by his imagination, aligning the film with the centuries’ old discourse that the West had propagated about the East, and by choosing to be oblivious about the harsh realities of the Indian scene for its edification by the Western audience, his “authentic” portrayal of India was limited simply to the gross generalisations of the West. Renoir became a huge inspiration for Satyajit Ray who had met the veteran director during his first visit to India to scout locations for The River. Keywords: orientalism; post-colonialism; Satyajit Ray; Jean Renoir; Hollywood; Bengali art cinema; Rasa theory; Calcutta New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License.	cache/cinej-656.pdf	txt/cinej-656.txt