The ancestral house of Oscar winner filmmaker Satyajit Roy. Photo: BSS

KISHOREGANJ, Jan 29, 2025 (BSS) - Hundreds of visitors have thronged the ancestral house of Oscar winner filmmaker Satyajit Roy at Masua village under Katiadi upazila here every day.

Satyajit Ray's ancestral House at Mashua, Katiadi, Kishoregunje, A seven-day fair, marking the birth anniversary of film maestro Satyajit Ray, has begun at the premises of the filmmaker's ancestral house. Katiadi upazila administration has initiated the fair at his village in the Masua region.

Visitors from home and abroad come here to see and enjoy the beautiful places of the district, including the ancestral house of film maestro Satyajit Roy. There are many scenic beauties in the district including haors and some historical places glorified by great hero of Bengal Isha Khan.   

The ancestral house of Satyajit Roy is located at Masua village, just only seven kilometers away from the Katiadi upazila headquarters that was once called ‘Jora Shanko’ of Bengal. Eminent child literature and music expert Upendra Kishore Ray Chowdhury and Sukumar Ray Chowdhury were born in this house.

Though Satyajit Roy was not born in this house but he had a close link of his heart with the heritage of this house, so that he was very soft towards Bangladesh.

There is an ancient building with different old arts on the walls. There is a ‘garden house’, elephant pond and a play ground. There is a small pond at the back side of the house and another pond with concerte ghat with many stairs at the front side. 

The house with the memories of the grandfather of Satyajit Roy is now under the supervision of the revenue department of the government. The house is encircled with barbed wire fence where local union land office is located. Bangladesh Tourism Corporation has built a rest house with a boundary wall and a road at a cost of Taka 70 lakh in 2012. The main building of the house was also renovated at a cost of Taka 51 lakh keeping the main structure intake.  

The ancestral house of the eminent filmmaker of the sub-continent is a place very close to the heart of the people of the area where a ‘Baishakhi Fair’ is arranged on the last Wednesday of the Bangla month Baishakh every year.