Sharmila Tagore began her career with Satyajit Ray’s 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar. Sharmila Tagore began her career with Satyajit Ray’s 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar. Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore, who began her career with Satyajit Ray’s 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) at the age of a mere 13, says the late legendary filmmaker never made child artistes memorise dialogues. Sharmila was here at The Nehru Memorial Museum Library for the inauguration of Revisting Ray, a conference and exhibition on the filmmaker, on Tuesday. Hailing Ray as a man of ideas who was “not at all influenced by the market driven world”, Sharmila also shed light on the dedication of the filmmaker.

Source: Indian Express May 15, 2018 16:09 UTC