Reacting to reports that filmmaker Satyajit Ray's ancestral home in Bangladesh's Dhaka will be demolished, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said it's "extremely distressing". "Ray family is one of the foremost bearers and carriers of Bengali culture," she stated. Mamata has appealed Centre to intervene in the matter. The property belonged to Satyajit's grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury.