'Taxi Driver' director Martin Scorsese reveals watching Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' gave him rare insight into lives of the marginalisedThe 80-year-old said he saw a dubbed English version of 'Pather Panchali' on television in New York as a youngster.
09 Oct, 2023, 06.04 PM IST
Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' and the song of the infrastructure'Pather Panchali' was released in 1955. India was embarking on its second Five-Year Plan that promised rapid industrialisation. It was a bi...
02 May, 2023, 04.09 PM IST
Boral, the village where young art director Satyajit Ray met 'Pather Panchali'Ghosh met Ray at age eight, and played a small part as a student at the village school in 'Pather Panchali', shot over from 1952 to 1955.
02 May, 2023, 01.43 PM IST
General knowledge, a bellyful of audiobooksExtending this excellent idea, may we suggest that audiobooks of classic works of literature like Godaan, Pather Panchali (lest anyone thin...
06 Mar, 2023, 11.10 PM IST
That feeling of guiltBibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, in his classic novel 'Aparajito', sequel to 'Pather Panchali', looks deep into the soul of Apu, a young man, ...
19 Dec, 2022, 11.33 PM IST
'Pather Panchali' declared best Indian movie by FIPRESCI"Pather Panchali," Ray's first film as a director, was based on the 1929 Bengali novel of the same name by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Th...
22 Oct, 2022, 04.08 PM IST
Flim-maker Anik Dutta's 'Aparajito', a tribute to Satyajit Ray, to be screened at Toronto International Film FestivalThe film festival is slated to be held from September 8-22.
13 May, 2022, 02.00 PM IST
Restored classics may feature in film-maker Satyajit Ray centenary film festivalRay, who was born on this day in 1921 in Kolkata, died in 1992.
02 May, 2022, 08.58 PM IST
Satyajit Ray three-day film festival to be held next month, will celebrate life and work of Indian cinema legendThe festival will begin with the red carpet and inauguration of Ray's semi-permanent gallery.
29 Apr, 2022, 05.43 PM IST
Anik Datta begins shooting of 'Aparajito'; Jeetu Kamal to essay the role of Satyajit Ray in tribute filmThe film is inspired by the making of Ray's 'Pather Panchali'.
12 Nov, 2021, 11.37 AM IST
On Satyajit Ray’s 99th birth anniversary, Mamata Banerjee, fans pay tribute to iconic director‘Maharaja Tomare Selam’, wrote Mamata Banerjee on Twitter.
02 May, 2020, 05.59 PM IST
Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is only Indian movie to feature in BBC's 100-best foreign language filmsThe film which released in 1955, was the first in the 'Apu' trilogy.
01 Nov, 2018, 02.58 PM IST
I copy Satyajit Ray: Shoojit Sircar"You won't notice what I am copying but I know what I am copying. I do it in whatever film I do. It is the Bible of my life."
30 Aug, 2015, 03.57 PM IST
'Pather Panchali' replay in US after 60 yrsSixty years after it hit the screen in the US and created ripples across the film world, 'Pather Panchali' will return to the Museum of Mod...
25 Apr, 2015, 02.16 PM IST
Google doodle celebrates Satyajit Ray's 92nd birthdayThe doodle showed a famous scene from the movie where Apu, the protagonist, runs along with his sister Durga across the Kash-reed fields to...
02 May, 2013, 11.50 AM IST
- Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' in greatest films list
Filmmaker Satyajit Ray's 1955 classic 'Pather Panchali' has featured in the 50 greatest films of all time list, which was dominated by Alfr...
02 Aug, 2012, 02.09 PM IST
'The best of cinema has portrayed poverty'Even after the Oscars toasted New India and its newfound talents, dissenting voices are debating the merits or otherwise of Slumdog Million...
27 Feb, 2009, 01.54 PM IST