Janus Films to purchase three Satyajit Ray classics
Janus Films to purchase three Satyajit Ray classics
Based in the US, Janus is a film distribution company dedicated to promoting indie & art-house movies of various nations to the US audience. It has preserved works of masters such as Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini etc.
If all goes well, not one, but three Satyajit Ray classics will be bought by Janus Films, a popular US film distribution company. In an interview with the Times Of India, Arijit Dutta, the heir of the family who produced three Ray masterpieces, ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’, ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ and ‘Pratidwandi’, said that he was considering selling the movies as it is getting difficult to preserve the negatives and was tired of multiple times the movies were screened without any recognition or compensation/royalty.