Ray A Renaissance Man | Utpal Dutta 

Utpal Dutta is being absolutely brutal here. This is what I admire about the man. Many of us fail to realize that here's a man who was erudite, well read, well travelled and most of all a man of conviction.

A sharp-tongued versatile genius delivering a genuinely magical speech on another iconic figure of Indian cinema & the last breed of cultural enlightenment in India.

'Renaissance is an inadequate term for Ray. He was a moment in the conscience of men'--- simply brilliant👌👌👌

What a magnificent monologue... I can't think of any actor of this generation who can even understand this talk...the depth of understanding..the knowledge of world history and art..are awesome... Gone the days of intellectual actors and directors... We only hope for this kind of greatness,for our next generation and the present one.

Knife edge sharpness in speech....courage of honesty... something we miss so terribly in today's time

Such a beautiful lecture... A speech of 1992 200% relevant in 2022

Extraordinary - brilliant, poignant, unmasked speech by a sharp, intelligent man. Many thanks for sharing this gem.

আমি জানি না আপনি কোথা থেকে এইসব দুর্লভ ভিডিও গুলো পাচ্ছেন, তবে আমি এইটুকু বলতে পারি আপনি আমার মতো সত্যজিতের অসংখ্য ভক্তদের অনেক অনেক সাহায্য করছেন। আপনার প্রতি আমরা কৃতজ্ঞ।

'Men in coma cannot refuse awards'-- what a sarcastic remark!

It is same as it was back then. What a speech. This is the standard we need the country. Do you have more of this man? Do you know books about him? Brilliant Man. If we had 1000 men like him, India will be world superpower. He speaks like Sam Manekshaw.

প্রতিটা শব্দ চাবুক ❤️❤️❤️

"Rubbish has been ennobled in India which goes by the name main stream cinema" couldn't be more true.... Salute 🙏🙏🙏

An honest example of hitting the target out of wisdom - no malice nothing of personal bias. Of course ideological belief is there but it logically finds the truth. Truth always tastes bitter. This is a gem of critical appreciation that well exposes both sides of the coin. Many thanks to the uploader.

"we honour you..we worship you..but your creations are not accepted here"👌

A bright vision laid by Mr.Ray for the Country and shaping its arts and minds but brutally shattered by the ignorant citizens and cunning government. Thank Utpal ji but still after 28 years with there is 60% of country's population unaware RAY . What a state we living in what governance we had and are having Thanks publisher and people of this calibre who can bring the renaissance are needed in high numbers to change the masses and shaping their minds.

Oh dear. He said this 29 years ago. I only wonder what he would have felt and said in today's world.

Ray was ahead of his time.One of the greatest Bengali ever.

Extraordinary speech that unmasks the true face of Indian 'democracy' and the popular culture.

I am speechless to describe the feeling after listening to it.....

28 mins 37 secs. Please hear it. Excuse me for once, but I had to say this.This used to be the class and identity of a BENGALI Intellectual. And I am not talking about Ray, but Utpal Dutta. Courage, Conviction and Articulation🙏🙏🙏 This channel got one more subscriber just for this video. Please keep in mind that the bar is set high now.🙂

Hirak Rajar Deshe won’t have released if Ray were to make it today! It is, after all, a fairy tale! I wonder why this isn’t shown to kids in schools ? Be it Bengal or other states? May be because it would teach them the most dangerous stuff: to think!! Mr. Dutta could be the only person who could be so lethal in stating the facts without being abusive! Thank you for posting this gem.

It is a pity that Ray had to wait till the very end to receive a Lifetime Achievement award when he was in hospital counting his last days. Had he been a Director born in the West, I am sure many of his movies today would have won the Academy Awards for Best films. Only recently Hollywood film-makers like Martin Scorsese have started openly acknowledging the immense contribution of Ray on world cinema. But it is too late. Thank you for sharing this masterpiece..

I'm just speechless. I would like to hear it time and again to know, feel, understand, realize the truths ... truths of our life and reality through the minds of 2 great men. Thank you so much for uploading it. I'm just missing all those times and moments in my heart when they worked together for creating something great in art with a mission for fulfilling the grand purpose of portraying reality truly.🙏🙋

After listening to the first 2-3 minutes I was reminded of the Utpal Dutta monologue in “Aguntuk”!

It takes one great mind to recognise a genius. And only Mr Dutta could put so much in so few words. Excellent. Thank you for uploading this

This speech should be nationally archived. Every Indian must listen to this lecture at least once, preferably before they become vegetable. Please share the link to everyone you know and every social network platform you traverse... thanks as always for sharing this .

The legendary actor, Utpal Dutt had superbly explained the iconic director Satyajit Ray as a human being. Reasons of selecting characters for his movies. It's a long and bold speech by Mr.Dutt..... whomever wants to know about the director Satyajit Ray, simply search youtube again and again. There are lots of jems here and there.

Haven't heard or read any article more inter-linkable in between history, culture ,society, politics and CINEMA.. It's a 30 years old speech but it is more relevant today and gives a clear Idea how our society and cinema reached where it is now...

Perhaps the best speech I have heard in the last few years…..not surprised that it came from one of the greatest actors of our times.

Brilliant!! Each statement is 100% true and frightfully relevant and more pronounced at this moment in time!

যে সাহসীকতা নিয়ে অকাট্য সত্য কথাগুলো বলে গেলেন এবং এই দুর্ভাগা দেশের মানুষকে সত্যজিৎ রায়ের সিনেমার অন্তরনিহিত উদ্দেশ্য বুঝিয়ে দিয়ে গেলেন তা অতুলনীয়।

A true intellectual speaking about Ray!!

This speech is spectacular . ♥️

Imagine what Utpal Dutt would say in today's political situation

Thanks a lot for uploading such rare speech. Both are my lifetime favourite. I admire for another reason which is relationship. It's not easy when both are such talented and class is so high! Old was really gold. Heerak Rajar Deshe can never be old. I still watch in my 37 years of age. Agantuk! who can forget? Ray has worked with 02 other great talents also, Chhabi Biswas and Tulsi Chakraborty. One shouldn't forget Pahari Sanyal's own song in advanced age in Aranyer Dinratri- that was the quality bengali cinema used to have in those days. In last, movie within movie or Nayak with Uttam Kumar!

astounded by the speech . Satyajit Ray and Utpal Dutt are legends.

What a special speech by Dutt sir what a piece of pronunciation ?

I wonder how the current Indian generation, mesmerized by the pipe dream of Hindutva laced nationalism, react to this speech?? I wish someone translated this into bangla and Hindi and shared it with the masses.

A wonderful speech by Mr. Dutt who himself was a man of exceptional intellect, about India"s greatest movie maker. Thank you so much for sharing it!

How indebted we feel to you for sharing this piece of sound where Mr. Utpal Dutt gave his piece of mind to the contemporary GOI for its callousness on conferring honour to such maestros like Satyajit Ray in a knee jerk reaction post oscar award to Ray. Thank you so much Mr. Soorajit Mookherjee ! At the same time I wonder what Mr. Dutt would have said today had he been alive?

What a speech! Each word penetrate s like a knife and absolutely true .Utpal Dutta's profound knowledge about film as well as indian socio political views has been depicted .He believes in Marxism that doesn't mean he was a follower of the then Marxist. I am very fond of Buddhism that doesn't mean I am a Buddhist.

What a wonderful tribute!! I bow to a genius called Utpal Dutta. Those who revel in today's central governance and despise the so-called 'commies' must understand what richness of culture these natural nationalists have. Being a 'commie' is not a shame, it's being the true believers of the condition of this country ... hats off! what a great speech ... breathtaking!

Poignant, sharp, scathing and yet enriching. Thanks for the upload!

Utpal Datta is widely appreciated in the Hindi-speaking world as a talented comedian and villian for his many loveable performances starting from Bhuvan Shome to Golmal.But,the "much nahin to kuch nahin"spouting cussed senior citizen, was little known,perhaps,beyond Bengal as a pioneering stage artist, who learnt his craft from Geoffrey Kendal,was a pioneering Director,writer, actor of stage plays,founder of a famous play group and a respected afficiniado and critic of Western and Indian classical and folk music before he acted in movies both Bangla and Hindi.In fact,before all of this and for the better part of his life he was a committed Communist who used to regularly sent most of his earnings from Mumbai to his Party and Theatre Group in Bengal. Utpal Datta is "versatile" and not a "Renaissance Man", as he himself in this Seminar, dedicated to Satyajit Ray in 1992, expounds and critically examines. Utpal Datta hectors, quite literally, the bureaucratic cognoscenti for their philistinism and hypocricy in their celebration of Ray.And in this tirade you shall get to see what Ray is but paradoxically, invisibilised despite the almost cult-like following and heaps of writings on him.Importantly,one gets to see what is it that makes Utpal Datta,a Maverick and the crusading intellectual.

What a great work you have done Soorajit by uploading this piece! I cannot be thankful enough!

A great tribute, utterance of hard truth and great speech by the great actor Utpal Dutta.Many thanks for finding out and uploading this video.

What an extraordinary speech - straight talk and sublime wit! Thanks for sharing this gem.

You made my day dear by uploading this rarest of rare gems...My ears thoroughly relished every word uttured by the great Utpal Dutt..Can't thank you enough for this!👍

Whar a superbly articulated speech decorated with well carefully chosen words & phrases of a versatile genius on an iconic figure of Indias cultural , social, economic&cultural Renaissance of India who was not given his rightful honour in his lifetime.

বর্তমান বিদ্বজনদের নির্লজ্জ পা চাটা সমাজের সময়ে এই speech সত্যি ই অসাধারণ। অনেক ধন্যবাদ। হঠাৎ যেন মনে পড়ে গেল পশ্চিমবঙ্গ এতো সমৃদ্ধ ছিল।আজ যেন ইতিহাস।

A speech which has rendered me into a state of speechlessness! Thanks!

Utpal Dutt, a great actor and a great villain on screen. A great orator and speaker of truth in real life.

Very recently I discovered your channel....you are a gem of a person ...I was looking for these contents for so long and now getting it all ...because of your channel...thank you for all the uploads.

Enriched . Proud to be a Bengali. Proud to have seen Ray's films. Proud to have watched Utpal Dutt's films.

Goosebumps in every word what a speech every word is diamond

Speechless! Why we are getting it so late! Needs wide circulation in every local language! Of course dubbing must be done by a right person !🙏🙏🌷🌷🙏🙏

What brilliance! This man is overwhelming!❤️❤️❤️🙏

Thank you so much for this excellent Piece on Satyajit Ray , the legend, by a brilliant actor and very learnef personality as Utpal Dutta.

A gem of Utpal Dutta's honesty towards truth! He's calling a spade a spade. Let us enlighten ourselves, across political view!

Awesome collection..... Kotha Theke pelen. Ray was much beyond any Awards.... and yes , as usual we Indians wake up late Everytime.

Thank you for sharing this gem.

Brilliant, hard hitting and so relevant. Utpal Dutta' s intellectual calibre is on display. We don't have any great artists like him now. And that's a pity.

How beautiful the words ..with so much unknown !! ❤️

Wow. What a nice audio clip. Thank you very much.

An inspiration 👍

THIS IS THE BEST SPEECH ABOUT MR RAY'S WORK THAT I HV HEARD IN LIVING MEMORY!! 🙏🙏 SIR UTPAL DUTTA WE R INDEBTED TO YOU FOR THIS!! "Keep on rocking in the free world" NY

Thank you for sharing this paper. This is so appropriate, so timely still, after nearly thirty years. The part about a free market in the arts, especially, is essentially timeless.

এই রকম অসাধারণ বক্তব্য, sharp and threadbare analysis of Fact can be done by a man of his clsss only !

What a powerful speech coming from an enlightened mind full of knowledge and scholarship. Simply amazing! Enough ammunition in it to hold the listeners spellbound. Thanks so much for uploading it.

সুরজিৎ-বাবু, অনেক অনেক ধন্যবাদ | আপনার উৎসাহে এরকম একটা জ্বালাময়ী ভাষণ শুনতে পেলাম | চমকে গেলাম | আমাদের প্রণাম নেবেন |

This piece of gold should've been published in a well-known film magazine somewhere in the world. What a searing critique on Ray's reception in India and the world outside!

Great speech by a great actor about an absolute genius!

What a find ! Thank you Soorajit 💕🙏🏾

Things have remained the same even after thirty years 😢😢😢

absolutely a jem!! please keep on uploading such wonderous videos!

Brilliant! Thnx brother for releasing this!

Darun laglo...I love Utpal Ji..as well as Ray..

Thanks soorojit for uploading this this kind of gems in your page. I have subscribed your page.

Fantastic collection Soorajit! Jealous of you.

Thanks a lot Mr Mukherjee for uploading this cameo.

Thank you so much for sharing this... I simply wonder what would have happened if Utpal Datta would have spoken similarly in today's Indian politico-social scenario...

Intellectual assessment of the master director, Ray by another master mind, Utpal Dutta.

This speech made my day !

This is the man who really understood the the reality of Indian politics of future... 👌

Brilliant speech!

This is an amazing speech.

28 minutes of sheer sarcasm. Well done, Sir.

Thank you Sir for this meaningful oration.

Please keep up the good work & thanks for sharing it!

Brilliant and characteristic of Utpal Dutta !!

what a blistering sarcasm from Mr. Dutta !!

Awarding Ray, the last ray of hope in the cultural Indian cinema, who inevitably & obviously brought revolution to the multi faced dimension of film & film making of Bengal was dishonoured to such a level that a highest honour of India was conferred on man who was about to breath his last in the hospital bed.

What a wonderful speech

eke bole asol intellectual - Utpal Dutta - darun darun darun bolechen Utpal Dutta....Huge respect to Utpal Dutta for pronouncing "Michelangelo" correctly. He was so thorough with his subjects.

Just Wow!!!Speechless listening to this stalwart of our Bengali art and culture

He is a legendary actor ....his expressions are out of the world....

Excellent! Excellent!! Nothing but Excellent!!!

This is so relevant in 2020, every Bengali should listen to this.

Exceptional speech by a maestro of film on another maestro.This is a brilliant perspective of a Legend on another legend.

A Statesman. Thank you Mr Mukherjee for this post.