Sujewa Ekanayake, ’superdelicious indie filmmaker’, talks of Satyajit Ray’s ‘authentic localism’:

One of biggest contribution of Ray to the world of cinema was his choice of subjects. He explored a range of characters and situations. Many of these were alien to popular Indian cinema, as they were not considered suitable film subjects in India. He brought real concerns of real people to the screen – villagers, city middle-class, intellectuals, rich and famous, detectives, kings…Ray himself summed up a very important aspect of his films: “Villains bore me.” Good Vs evil, white vs. black, the hero and the villain. It was an age-old formula for evading the real truth. He explored the complex shades of grey in stead.