Satyajit Ray centenary: How he found Indir Thakrun, the scene-stealer of Pather Panchali
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...
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