If there was ever an evening to remember, it was the premiere of Aranyer Din Ratri—screened in a a glowing restored version as part of the Cannes Classics section. On stage were the two ‘survivors’ of the class of the Satyajit Ray classic, as Sharmila Tagore put it so eloquently, with Simi Garewal standing next to her, both resplendent, bringing back memories of an era when cinema was meant for theatres, to be experienced in the dark. “Simi and I are the only survivors, everyone else has passed on,” said Sharmila, including the very handsome Soumitra Chatterjee, who made stylish dark glasses such a statement, as one of the four young men who fetch up in a forest guest house, for a short break away from their citified, stratified lives. Story continues below this ad Also Read | Cannes review: Wes Anderson ratchets up the whimsy in The Phoenician Scheme, doesn’t stick the landing In Ray’s hands, the story turns into something astonishing, where what we see is what we get, and much more: it …