 Critics have often compared Ray to artists in the cinema and other media , such as Chekhov , Renoir , De Sica , Hawks or Mozart . The writer V. S. Naipaul compared a scene in <unk> Ki Khiladi ( The Chess Players ) to a Shakespearean play ; he wrote , " only three hundred words are spoken but goodness ! – terrific things happen . " Even critics who did not like the aesthetics of Ray 's films generally acknowledged his ability to encompass a whole culture with all its nuances . Ray 's obituary in The Independent included the question , " Who else can compete ? " His work was promoted in France by The Studio des Ursuline cinema . 
