Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  N'afọ 1943, Ray malitere ịrụ ọrụ n'ụlọ ọrụ mgbasa ozi nke ndị Briten na-elekọta, nke a na-akpọ D.J. Keymer, dị ka "onye na-eto eto na-ese onyinyo", na-akpata rupee iri asatọ kwa ọnwa. Ọ bụ ezie na ọ masịrị imepụta ihe ngosi (imepụta ihe osise) ma mesoo ya nke ọma, enwere esemokwu n'etiti ndị ọrụ Britain na ndị India nke ụlọ ọrụ ahụ. A na-akwụ ndị Britain ụgwọ ka mma, Ray chekwara na "ndị ahịa ha n'ozuzu ha bụ ndị iberibe". Mgbe e mesịrị, Ray rụkwara ọrụ maka Signet Press, ụlọ obibi akwụkwọ ọhụrụ nke D. K. Gupta malitere. Gupta gwara Ray ka o mepụta ihe mkpuchi maka akwụkwọ ndị Signet Press ga-ebipụta ma nye ya nnwere onwe nka zuru oke. Ray mere mkpuchi maka ọtụtụ akwụkwọ, gụnyere Jibanananda Das's Banalata Sen, na Rupasi Bangla, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Chander Pahar, Jim Corbett's Maneaters of Kumaon, na Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na ụdị ụmụaka nke Pather Panchali, akwụkwọ akụkọ Bengali oge ochie nke Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay dere, nke a na-akpọ Aam Antir Bhepu (Mango-seed whistle). Mgbe Ray na-ese akwụkwọ ahụ na ihe osise ndị dị n'ihu ya, ọ bụ ọrụ ahụ kpaliri ya nke ukwuu. O jiri ya dị ka isiokwu nke ihe nkiri mbụ ya, ma gosipụta ihe osise ya dị ka ihe nkiri na ihe nkiri ya. Ya na Chidananda Dasgupta na ndị ọzọ, Ray guzobere Calcutta Film Society na 1947. Ha na-egosi ọtụtụ fim ndị mba ọzọ, Ray na-ele ọtụtụ n'ime ha ma mụọ ha nke ọma. O mere enyi na ndị agha America nọ na Calcutta n'oge Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ, ndị na-eme ka ọ mara banyere ihe nkiri ndị America kachasị ọhụrụ na-egosi n'obodo ahụ. Ọ bịara mara onye ọrụ RAF, Norman Clare, onye kesara oke agụụ Ray maka ihe nkiri, chess na egwu ọdịda anyanwụ ọdịda anyanwụ. Na 1949, Ray lụrụ Bijoya Das, nwa nwanne nna ya na onye ọ hụrụ n'anya ogologo oge. Di na nwunye ahụ mụrụ nwa nwoke, Sandip, onye bụ onye nduzi ihe nkiri ugbu a. N'otu afọ ahụ, onye France na-eduzi ihe nkiri bụ Jean Renoir bịara Calcutta iji gbaa ihe nkiri ya bụ The River. Ray nyeere ya aka ịchọta ebe ndị dị n'ime ime obodo. Ray gwara Renoir banyere echiche ya nke ịgba ihe nkiri Pather Panchali, nke dị ya n'uche ogologo oge, Renoir wee gbaa ya ume na ọrụ ahụ. Na 1950, D.J. Keymer zigara...  Ajụjụ: Ònye bipụtara akwụkwọ ndị ahụ?
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