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100 Years of Satyajit Ray: Here’s A Look At The Seven Best Films Of The Bengali Legend
One of India’s finest filmmakers, Satyajit Ray, was born on this day in 1921.
Lachmi Deb Roy 02 May 2021, Last Updated at 7:57 am Corbis (From Outlook Issue 11 January 2016) Lachmi Deb Roy 2021-05-02T07:33:36+05:30 100 Years of Satyajit Ray: Here’s A Look At The Seven Best Films Of The Bengali Legend outlookindia.com 2021-05-02T07:57:23+05:30
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Any discussion of Indian cinema would be incomplete without the mention of Satyajit Ray. Known in the film industry as Manik da, Ray was one of the most respected Indian filmmakers and actors without exception felt privileged to work with him.
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 and Apu. Harihar’s elderly cousin Indir Thakrun also lives with the family and is particularly close to Durga. Sarbajaya, weighted down by poverty, is often rude to Indir, causing her to temporarily seek shelter with another relative in the village.