The Burdwan Development Authority (BDA) on Tuesday kicked off a six-month long open-air exhibition on legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray to celebrate his birth centenary this year.

Sandip Ray (centre in picture above), son of Satyajit Ray, along with his wife Lalita, inaugurated the exhibition in the presence of several senior BDA officials in Burdwan town on Tuesday evening.

The versatile Ray was born in 1921 in Calcutta and had played a significant role in Indian films, scriptwriting, writing and painting in his lifetime.

The BDA has displayed 16 posters of films by Satyajit Ray and 12 portraits of the filmmaker on the electric posts near the town’s Curzon gate.

The BDA Officials said the exhibition would continue till May 2 next year.

BDA executive officer Santanu Basu said: “It was our way of paying tribute to the master of Indian cinema Satyajit Ray on his birth centenary.”