The Making of Shatranj Ke Khiladi: The master and the bania

A more comprehensive picture emerges in this book, an accumulation of recollections and letters written and received by the film's producer

My Adventures with Satyajit Ray

The Making of Shatranj Ke Khiladi

Suresh Jindal

HarperCollins

187 pages; Rs 350

Photographer Pablo Bartholomew was born the same year Satyajit Ray made his first film Pather Panchali (1955). So it was a serendipitous coincidence that as a 20-something he was hired to take stills during the shooting of Ray’s first Hindi film Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977). The stills he captured of the actors on sets were probably used in some publicity material, but he captured much more: Glimpses of behind-the-scenes action of one of the greatest filmmakers at work. A more comprehensive picture emerges in this book,