'' The Inner Eye '' is a 1972 short documentary film made by Satyajit Ray on Benode Behari Mukherjee , a blind artist and a teacher from Visva-Bharati University , a university founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan . The twenty minutes documentary features the life and works of Mukherjee in the form of paintings and photographs , starring himself . The documentary covers his journey from childhood till his blindness along with much of his works and features his words , " Blindness is a new feeling , a new experience , a new state of being " . The documentary was awarded as Best Information Film ( Documentary ) at 20th National Film Awards in 1972
20th National Film Awards
20th National Film Awards
The Inner Eye