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Episode: Amrit Rai remembering Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Ray made a film Shatranj Ke Khiladi based on a short story by Munshi Premchand in 1977. Amrit Rai the son of Munshi Premchand has got numerous stories of that era. Here he was talking some of them in his very characteristic style.
Amrit Rai (3 September 1921 – 14 August 1996) was an Indian writer, poet, translator and biographer in both the Hindi and Urdu styles of the Hindustani language. He was the son of Munshi Premchand, a pioneer of modern Urdu literature and of Hindi literature. A prolific writer, Rai made his literary debut with novel Beej in 1952 and went on to wr...