- Americans Hate Tingle: “Hate” may be a strong word, but Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, while a huge hit in its native West Bengal, is probably his least-liked movie among Western critics.
- Awesome Music: His work with Pandit Ravi Shankar, who scored a number of his films, proved hugely influential with the Beatles. Ray was no slouch in the music department either, as his score for ‘’Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’’ shows.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: For most of his career, his movies were more popular and liked by independent film-makers in America, England and Japan, than in the rest of India. Salman Rushdie (who is from Mumbai) noted that he had to go to London to see his movies and appreciate how great Ray was. Ray is especially popular in America, among the likes of Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan, Ira Sachs and Wes Anderson (his film The Darjeeling Limited is full of homages to Ray and features Ray's own music from a number of his movies).
- Mainstream Obscurity: Within India, Ray is remembered as "That guy who won the Lifetime Achievement Award" and an Indian-film-maker Westerners like but his films remain obscure outside his home state and film society cliques. The language barrier is one problem (Bengali is not a common language outside his state unlike Hindi which is spoken across India).
- Pandering to the Base: A number of Indians (including fellow filmmakers such as Mrinal Sen) accused Ray of exporting a glamorized image of Indian poverty to Western audiences, while failing to advocate explicitly for any kind of political change. The Bollywood actress Nargis (who later became a MP) criticized him for not showing India's development storynote .
- So My Kids Can Watch: Ray made Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne after his son requested he make something less “grim and adult”
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