ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines Indian cinema in the region, nation, transregion through a very preliminary and loose set of speculations around the work of Satyajit Ray in the 1960s. It explores Ray’s Nayak, a film for which he wrote an original script, a script not adapted from any literary work, as a case study of what it might tell about Indian cinema–literature interface in region, nation and transregion at a particular moment in history. The chapter also refers to other Ray ‘originals’, Kanchenjungha and the Feluda novels and films of the 1970s. It examines if the films where Ray’s cinema departed from the literary might have something to do with the issue of region, nation, transnation, the divergence between cinema and literature itself a filter for discursifying a certain historical juncture for the region in the nation and transnation.
