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The great, sad, gentle sweep of "The Apu Trilogy" remains in the mind of the moviegoer as a promise of what film can be. Standing above fashion, it creates a world so convincing that it becomes, for a time, another life we might have lived. The three films, which were made in India by Satyajit Ray between 1950 and 1959, swept the top prizes at Cannes, Venice and London, and created a new cinema for India--whose prolific film industry had traditionally stayed within the narrow confines ...

Satyajit Ray’s debut feature film Pather Panchali, released even while he was totally unknown as a filmmaker

Satyajit Ray, a name that needs no introduction. An Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, lyricist, magazine editor, essayist,  calligrapher, illustrator, and music composer. He made many wonderful creations in the world of cinema and created a new wave in Indian cinema. He directed the films that passed a message and he will be remembered forever. On

100 Years of Satyajit Ray: a tribute to The Apu Trilogy May 2, 2021, saw the start of celebrations of the 100th birthday of the great Bengali filmmaker, Satyajit Ray. Ray’s films were probably amongst the earliest Indian films I’d seen, long before Bollywood would grab my attention. I love many of Ray’s films: Devi from 1960 (starring the sublime Sharmila Tagore) is a particular favourite, and is a commentary on religious devotion and fundamentalism, and, particular, on a system that...

Chunibala Devi in Pather Panchali (1955) | Government of West Bengal/Criterion Collection is among the most assured filmmaking debuts in the annals of cinema. Ray’s adaptation of a portion of Bhibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel of the same name was released in 1955. Sixty-six years later, the spell cast by the chronicle of a family in rural Bengal is intact. Pather Panchali revolves around the hardscrabble lives of Harihar, his wife Sarbajaya and their children Durga...