Pather Panchali

   

Pather Panchali, released in 1955, is the first film of director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy. The film is a serene and beautiful depiction of a little boy's childhood in the Indian countryside in the 1950s.

The film was made on a shoestring budget by a hitherto unknown director. Apart from a seventy-year-old woman who made her name in the 1930s on the stage, none of the cast had ever acted before and many had been plucked from the Indian rurality. In contrast Satyajit Ray completed the trilogy on the behest of the Indian Prime Minister, pointing to the film's cultural impact.

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