India, July 16 -- Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee flagged the Centre about the demolition of iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray's ancestral house in Dhaka, India has stepped up to cooperate with the Bangladesh government to repair and reconstruct the ancestral property.

"We note with profound regret that the ancestral property of noted filmmaker and litterateur Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, belonging to his grandfather and eminent litterateur, Upendra Kishor Ray Chowdhury, is being demolished," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement.

The property, presently owned by the Government of Bangladesh, is in a state of disrepair, it said.

The Indian government has expressed its willingness to "e...