25. 9. 81
Dear Tultul
I was very happy to receive your letter. I doubt if anybody else other than you has listened
to and appreciated the background music in my films as well as you have.

Everyone in our family is very fond of the song `Aha ki anondo'. However, I haven't come 
across an appreciative response about the song from anybody else outside the family, 
apart from you.

You have mentioned some ragas in the context of many of my songs; however, I don't think
about the raga when I compose a song. The main thing I keep in mind is what tune goes well
with a given situation. Whether or not it falls within a raga structure is of less 
importance to me. I often can't recall which occurs to me first- the words or the tune. 
Actually it is rather hard to recapture the exact process of creating a song. 
It is often a rather spontaneous process; one does not have to struggle too hard.

Pudovkin's books are really very nice. When I had first read Eisenstein (1948), I had 
the same reaction- I felt that it went over my head. His writing is rather heavy going.
However, one has to keep in mind one thing while reading Pudovkin's writings. 
He had written his books during the age of Silent Films. One encounters an entirely
different set of problems while writing a screenplay for a film with sound and dialogue.
Pudovkin did not need to worry about dialogues; in contrast, that is our primary concern.
We always need to think of economizing on words and at the same time making the dialogue 
as effective as possible.

I have recently returned from Madhya Pradesh after finishing the shooting of `Sadgati'
-a Hindi movie, based on a novel by Premchand, that I have made for the television.
I hope to arrange a screening of `Piku' and `Sadgati' by December. I will let all of 
you know at that time.
	Love and best wishes to all of you.
		Satyajit Ray.