Background
Bijoya Ray was born as Bijoya Das to Charu Chandra Das, a barrister and Madhuri Devi, younger sister of nationalist leader "Deshbandhu" C R Das"s wife Basanti Devi.
Bijoya Ray was born as Bijoya Das to Charu Chandra Das, a barrister and Madhuri Devi, younger sister of nationalist leader "Deshbandhu" C R Das"s wife Basanti Devi.
University of Calcutta. Jogamaya Devi College.
Their son Sandip Ray is also a film director Bijoya and Satyajit were first cousins. Bijoya Ray acted and sang playback song in a Bengali movie called Shesh Raksha in 1944 and also acted in the documentary Gaach (The Tree) by Catherine Berge in 1998.
She died in Kolkata on 2 June 2015, aged 98, after suffering from acute pneumonia.
She was the youngest of four daughters. She had a versatile acting talent although she didn"t work in many films.
Bijoya grew up in Patna and was educated in a convent. She had a gifted voice and her father wanted to send her to Paris to be trained in soprano and western classical music
They were drawn to each other very soon and their common interests were Film and western classical music
She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women"s college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata. After graduating, she worked as a clerk in a government office, she went to Bombay to start a film career and was eventually unsuccessful. She worked in a few films without success or satisfaction.
Their only son Sandip was born in 1953.
Bijoya Ray remained a constant inspiration and influence in Ray"s life. She wrote an autobiography "Amader kotha (আমাদের কথা )" which is published by Ananda Publishers.