MUMBAI: Looks like the Nepalese have more of an inclination towards seasoned directors of India.

The country that recently hosted mini festivals of directors like Goutom Ghosh and Shyam Benegal is going to host a retrospective of 10 films of Satyajit Ray from 21 to 25 February at Kathmandu organized by Film South Asia (FSA).

To be screened at the Yale Maya Kendra in Patan, the films include Charulata, Aranyer Din Ratri, Sadgati and Shatranj Ke Khiladi among others. The screenings will be followed by discussions on the films.

In the 1990s, after the FSA was established in Kathmandu by the Himal Media Group to popularise documentary films and showcase the best documentaries of South Asia, Rajendra Bhattarai, a Nepali environmental engineer, had suggested to the FSA to host a retrospective of Ray‘s films.

Now, almost a decade later, a retrospective of the maestro‘s films is being held in Nepal.