Part of Ray's 'Apu Trilogy', the film remains one of the most influential movies the world has seen. In Cannes, his debut film was nominated for the Palme d'Or for the best film and won the Prix du document humain (best human document).
Times of India in a piece in 1956 said: "It is banal to compare it with any other Indian picture. The music for the movie was composed by the famous sitarist Ravi Shankar and was considered an epochal score by the film fraternity, but Chatterji said the two geniuses had their intellectual differences and "in later films, Ray started composing his own music".Īfter initial hesitation, the movie which depicts a family's struggle to live in their rural ancestral village as the hero - a child named Apu - grows up, did surprisingly well with both the critics and in the box office. this was typically Ray, a very meticulous director who planned every single shot long before executing it," explained Chatterji. Instead, "Satyajit Ray drew a storyboard for the entire movie - picturising every scene that he shot with the dialogues scribbled on the margins in a strong, neat hand. No script was ever written for the movie as Ray believed the novel by noted Bengali writer Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay was far too lucidly written to require a script. it touched the heart, not just the other senses," said Shoma A Chatterji, veteran film critic and author of books on Satyajit Ray.
'Pather Panchali' was a far more realistic and yet stunningly beautiful presentation of rural India's life than we had ever seen before. "His first movie marked him out as being born into a different league. New York's Museum of Modern Art, too, chipped in with some support after noted American film director John Huston saw some of Ray's unfinished raw reels and declared it as the work of a "great filmmaker".
Satyajit Ray cast mostly amateur actors in his movie for which he raised money by pawning his wife's jewellery and taking a subsidy sanctioned by the then chief minister of West Bengal Late Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, a fellow Brahmo Samaji. Locals have garlanded it and put up festoons to celebrate the renowned filmmaker's birth anniversary on Tuesday. today we feel a kind of pride that he chose our 'para' (locality)," said Paul.Ī small bust of Satyajit Ray stands at the turn of the road from the house he had rented for the shooting. "The entire village was agog with excitement through the period the movie was shot.
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