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Pather Panchali, the film by legendary Satyajit Ray, is a world classic. It is no wonder that recently it topped the list of 10 greatest Indian films in a poll conducted by the India chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). The film is an adaptation of the Bengali book by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, published in 1929.
It is telling irony that Anik Datta’s Aparajito, a Bengali film to talk about after a very long time, is a film on how Satyajit Ray made his first film 67 years ago.
Anik Datta’s Bengali film is about the making of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’ – or is it?
81-year -old remembers watching Pather Panchali (1955), Ray’s first film, for the first time in the late 1950s
Soumendu Roy, cinematographer of 21 Satyajit Ray films, recalls his experience as a novice on the unit of ‘Pather Panchali’