The Alien (unproduced film)

The Alien, or Avatar was an unproduced bilingual Indian-American science-fiction film written by Satyajit Ray and in development in the late 1960s which was eventually cancelled. It was to be directed by Satyajit Ray and co-produced by Columbia Pictures. The script was loosely based on Bankubabur Bandhu, a Bengali science fiction story he had written in 1962 for Sandesh, which gained popularity among Bengalis in the early 1960s.