 Satyajit Ray considered script @-@ writing to be an integral part of direction . Initially he refused to make a film in any language other than Bengali . In his two non @-@ Bengali feature films , he wrote the script in English ; translators interpreted it in Hindi or Urdu under Ray 's supervision . Ray 's eye for detail was matched by that of his art director Bansi Chandragupta . His influence on the early films was so important that Ray would always write scripts in English before creating a Bengali version , so that the non @-@ Bengali Chandragupta would be able to read it . The craft of Subrata Mitra garnered praise for the cinematography of Ray 's films . A number of critics thought that his departure from Ray 's crew lowered the quality of cinematography in the following films . Though Ray openly praised Mitra , his single @-@ mindedness in taking over operation of the camera after Charulata caused Mitra to stop working for him after 1966 . Mitra developed " bounce lighting " , a technique to reflect light from cloth to create a diffused , realistic light even on a set . Ray acknowledged his debts to Jean @-@ Luc Godard and François Truffaut of the French New Wave for introducing new technical and cinematic innovations . 
