Travails With The Alien: When Satyajit Ray considered suing Spielberg

A book accounting Satyajit Ray's failed attempts to make a sci-fi film in Hollywood is a poignant reminder of his gullibility when it came to the business practices of the American film world

Travails With The Alien: The film that was never made and other adventures with science fiction

Author: Satyajit Ray

Publisher:  HarperCollins & Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives 

Pages: 214+X

Price: Rs 699

On March 30, 1992, Satyajit Ray delivered a short and memorable speech accepting the honorary Oscar award in recognition of his “rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook”. It was perhaps the most poignant moment in Ray’s distinguished career as a film-maker. He was unwell and he had to deliver that acceptance speech from a hospital bed in Calcutta, as Kolkata