god Vishnu, in a spoof based on an Indian epic Ramayana, Lakshmaner Shaktishel (The magical spear of Lakshmana). The spoof is based on Rama's dream about the central antagonist of the Ramayana, the demon-king Ravana and the spy (Tapen Chatterjee) providing further information about it. The documentary also focusses on Ray's college days in London while studying photography, lithography and his meeting with Nobel Prize–winning littérateur, Rabindranath Tagore. While narrating his first poem Khichudi (The mixture) published in children's magazine, Sandesh, launched by his father, the documentary explains how entire Ray family worked together for the growth of the magazine after the death of Upendrakishore Ray. Mentioning his association with Brahmo Samaj, the documentary ends with Sukumar Ray's terminal disease and his death on 10 September 1923. Credits Cast Utpal Dutt as Village teacher (character of the play Jhala Pala) Soumitra Chatterjee as Rama (from the play Lakshmaner Shaktishel (The magical spear of Lakshmana)) Tapen Chatterjee as informer (from the play Lakshmaner Shaktishel) Chiranjeet as Lakshmana (from the play Lakshmaner Shaktishel) Santosh Dutta Nirmal Ghosh Bimal Deb Ramesh Mukhopadhyay Sambarta Sarkar Soumya Patra Chinmay Chatterjee Utpal Roy Shamik Banerjee Sougata Banerjee Ankur Chatterjee Soumendranath Das Crew Narration: Soumitra Chatterjee Editor: Dulal Dutta Art direction: Ashoke Bose Sound designer: Sujit Sarkar Cinematographer: Barun Raha Still photographer: Nemai Ghosh, Hirak Sen, Satyaki Make up: Ananta Das Music Music direction: Satyajit Ray Assistant music director: Aloknath Dey Singer: Anup Ghoshal Chorus: Biswajeet Gupta, Debashish Roy Chowdhury, Arup Majumder, Prabuddha Raha, Shekhar Gupta, Aditya Narayan Biswas Song recording: Sushanta Banerjee Re-recording: Jyoti Chatterjee, Anup Mukhopadhyay References External links 1987 films 1987 documentary films 1987 short films 1980s Bengali-language films Documentary films about writers Films directed by Satyajit Ray Bengali-language Indian films Indian short documentary films 1980s short documentary films