SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS IN SATYAJIT RAY’S FILM.AN EVALUATION STUDY ON PATHERPANCHALI
Keywords:
Cinema, Communication, Syntactic, Semantic.Abstract
Cinema is one of the most powerful medium of communication. This has collective art form of audio visual medium that combines all art form in one; painting, color, written, oral, visual acoustic…etc. It is a collective dream of society that has a mass appeal and people respond one way or the other to the fantasy world that created by auteur/director. The auteur creates through cinematic grammar and techniques in the form of semantics that deals with words meaning and syntactic that deals with word order and the way phrases and sentences are put together in film. The decade of 1950’s is regarded as golden period not only in Indian film history but also worldwide. During these period Indian films was regarded as best projecting the reality of society through art, entertainment and as an industry. One of the films is”PatherPanchali” (1955) that won Indian cinema great entertainment recognition and critical acclaim. The pioneering contribution was taken by Bengali film maker Satyajit Ray (Oscar winner) this film was also awarded best human documentary (1956) at Cannes film festival and went on winning awards worldwide. This is considered to be a master piece of world cinema. The paper explains the syntactic and semantic approach given by director through identifying the important plots. The film was based on Bengali novel where the cinema emphasizes on realism, visual poetry, psychology probing, society norms and values, family bond…etc. Even today this film is internationally recognized as a classic artistic cinema of India.
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