In Santiniketan, he was the manik of Master Mashai Nandalal, the manik of Vinod Bihari, the manik of Ramkinkar; even Satyajit, the son of Kala Bhavan student Sukumar Ray, was the manik of Rabindranath. Manik was Satyajit's nickname. This biography, 'A Rare Manik', is woven with many unknown stories of this Manik growing up from his student life at Kala Bhavan, and gradually becoming Satyajit Ray. The film of rare letters written to Dinu and Bhunu, childhood friends of Santiniketan, is a unique story of a rare Manik who developed from a pilgrimage site of art and culture.