Bijoya ray biography

Indian actress

Bijoya Ray (née Das; 27 October 1917 – 2 June 2015)^[1] was the wife of the IndianfilmmakerSatyajit Ray. Their son Sandip Ray is also a film director.

Bijoya and Satyajit were first cousins.^[2] Bijoya's father was the eldest half brother of Satyajit Ray's mother. After a long courtship, they were married in 1949.^[3] Bijoya Ray acted and sang playback song in a Bengali feature film called Shesh Raksha in 1944 and also acted in the documentary Gaach (The Tree) by Catherine Berge in 1998.

Satyajit ray

She died in Kolkata on 2 June 2015, aged 97, after suffering from acute pneumonia.^[4]

Early life and education

Bijoya Ray was born as Bijoya Das in Patna to Charu Chandra Das, a barrister and Madhuri Devi, younger sister of nationalist leader 'Deshbandhu' C R Das's wife Basanti Devi.

She was the youngest of four daughters. One of her elder siblings Sati Devi was a well-known singer and musical exponent who worked with Uda