Thursday, 29 April 2010

Question for 29th April, 2010


Identify the pics and and the person connecting them.

7 comments:

Nikhil said...

The 2nd pic is ET. The first pic is by some Indian artist? MF Hussain?

Ankur said...

2 is ET

1 is some Bengali version of Alien?

I guess the person connecting the two would be Satyajit Ray?

Angelus said...

1) Satyajit Ray's short story The Alien??

2) ET

Donno the common link.

anuj said...

2nd image is ET

Dev said...

The second pic is the poster for the movie ET. My guess for the person is the designer of the alien in ET and Koi Mil Gaya.

Gypsy said...

Extra-terrestrial
Person connecting is Steven Spielberg,
it was claimed that he plagiarized the script of E.T. from Bengali play "The Alien" by Satyajeet Ray

The Answer said...

Image 1: First page of the script of "The Alien", by Satyajit Ray in which he doodled some of the names he thought of for a movie. The first two in Bengali script are "Avatar" and "Mangal Kavya".

The Alien had Columbia Pictures as producer for this planned U.S.-India co-production, and Peter Sellers and Marlon Brando as the leading actors. Somehow, the movie never materialized.

Image 2: Movie poster of E.T. by Steven Spielberg. According to Satyajit Ray, the movie E.T. - "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies".