Wes Anderson Says The Memory Scene In Asteroid City Is ‘Stolen' From Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri

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Aranyer Din Ratri features Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Samit Bhanja, Rabi Ghosh, Pahari Sanyal, Sharmila Tagore Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal and Aparna Sen in keyr oles.
Aranyer Din Ratri features Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Samit Bhanja, Rabi Ghosh, Pahari Sanyal, Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal and Aparna Sen in key roles
American filmmaker Wes Anderson is making headlines after completing a six-year restoration of Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest), which will now be featured at Cannes Classics.
Here's a fun fact – a scene from Anderson's 2023 film Asteroid City was 'stolen" from Aranyer Din Ratri. The memorable memory game sequence in Asteroid City is directly inspired by Ray's 1970 classic.
In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter India, Wes Anderson was asked if he recreated the memory game scene from Aranyer Din Ratri for Asteroid City.
To this, the filmmaker said, 'Yes, well, stole it… First of all, the concept of the scene is very odd because it's a game. But we learn about these characters so much while they play these games and they're saying these names. And then the way it's photographed, I mean, the cast is obviously special cast, but the way it's photographed is very striking. And the moment when we choose to start going from face to face, there's more emotion in this scene than you would think there's any reason to be."
According to a Variety report, the restoration of Aranyer Din Ratri began in 2019. As a member of Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation board, Wes Anderson helped start the project to bring this classic back. Inspired by Satyajit Ray's work, a team from The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project, Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films and The Criterion Collection came together to make it happen. The entire restoration was funded by the Golden Globe Foundation.
Aranyer Din Ratri features Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Samit Bhanja, Rabi Ghosh, Pahari Sanyal, Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal and Aparna Sen in key roles. This Bengali-language adventure drama is based on the novel of the same name by Sunil Gangopadhyay.
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