“G.C. Laha also had a very quaint and special connection with Baba’s directorial masterpiece, (Pather Panchali). The storyboard of the film, which is the graphic representation of the scre...

Extracted from an essay originally published in Bengali in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, edited by Arun Sen, Kolkata: Pratikhkhan, 2005. ...

Anik Datta’s new film, Aparajito, is inspired by the making of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, and actor Jeetu Kamal plays Aparajito Ray! Aparajito was the second film of the Apu trilogy. ...

The Bengal government will dedicate a new auditorium to Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s memory in an attempt to rekindle the late author’s association with Barrackpore, where he lived for s...

Some of the films I love for their representation of Durga Puja or its associations are Pather Panchali, Parama, Utsab. Kaash phool waving in the wind, Durga and Apu running to the puja mandap for pr...

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I first saw Charulata in New York, in 1981. In the couple of years I’d been a novice film buff in Calcutta, I’d somehow managed not to see the classic Ray movies; whenever there ...

How are you going to deal with the burden of expectations and comparisons that follow anything that has to do with Ray? I am used to this burden that you talk about, of expectations and comparisons fr...

Father Gaston Roberge, a French-Canadian Jesuit priest, had been asking himself since the 1980s why India did not have a new theory of popular films.  It was only in 2010 he got an answer a...

He was supposed to inaugurate the puja that had his debut film as its theme. Instead, the pandal décor ended up adding a visual touch to his last journey. An 18ft cut-out of Soumitra Chatterje...