What a legendary personality Mr. Ray was. Mr. Jafree is a delightful and intelligent character as well both on the screen and off the screen. Such Jems of human are no longer produced by the current human society.
What an excellent video...!! Amazing booming voice of Mr. Ray . The deatils he delves into about his films and the making behind it ... Truly exceptional 👌
Propah English being spoken by someone who never lived in Englans. And he was also deeply immersed on the culture and language of India. Straddled both world effortlessly. Like Tagore
He was a very intelligent and erudite individual, so it is surprising that he explained the Urdu language as "classical Hindi", which is categorically wrong.
Shows how you know nothing of your own history. There was no “Hindi” in the 19th century. Only various dialects of Hindustani, most being fairly rustic and quite distant from Sanskrit. Urdu represented a “high or exemplary standard” of the Hindustani at the time, which is the definition of “classical”.
Had he said "urdu is a classical version of Hindi" today he probably would have been hanged😂 during the age of smartphones we Indians are walking backwards. It's a shame
Please understand that he is talking to a foreign audience. It is very difficult to make such an audience understand what Urdu is. These are some of the handicaps when you talk to an audience who are not so conversant with an outlandish culture. Example how do you explain Meerh & Jhala & Teehai of Indian Classical Music in English ?
@@aniruddhachatterjee1moreover he was a Bengali and he was well versed in that. In those times of British education Hindi still had not travelled towards eastern states that much and hence he might have gotten it wrong. That's okay. He is not god afterall
