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MOVIES - Sept. 17, 1987

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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i>

India’s best-known film director, Satyajit Ray, returned to film-making in Calcutta on Wednesday, three years after a heart attack that nearly killed him. He began directing a state-sponsored 30-minute documentary on his father Sukumar Ray, a well-known Bengali poet and illustrator. The director, who won international acclaim for his “Apu Trilogy” of films depicting Indian village life, was partially paralyzed by a severe heart attack in 1984, later undergoing surgery in the United States.

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