Dhaka, July 17 -- Bangladesh has clarified that a house in Mymensingh, reported in some media as the ancestral property of eminent filmmaker and author Satyajit Ray, does not, in fact, belong to his family, reaffirming that the property has no historical connection with the Ray lineage.

Following reports suggesting that authorities were demolishing the ancestral home of Ray's grandfather, the noted litterateur Upendra Kishor Ray Chowdhury, the government conducted a detailed archival review which confirmed that the house in question was originally built by local zamindar Shashikant Acharya Chowdhury for his employees, adjacent to his residence, Shashi Lodge.

"Detailed inquiry into the archival records re-confirmed that the house in ques...