He has relied on the treaty of friendship with the British to pursue the arts in stead of maintaining an army. The non Bengali audience also gets to appreciate Ray's dialogue writing skills in a few scene that are in English, though the Urdu dialogues that were written by collaborators do not rise to the same standards. I think he's rather good, Sir. I know some, Sir. Yes, I'm not a poetry man.
Many soldiers are.
But I'm curious to know what it sounds like. I rather like the sound of Hindustani. That's all, Sir. Well, it certainly has the virtue of brevity. He's speaking about himself, Sir.