No book on world cinema is complete without mention of India's wonderful contributions like "Pather
Panchali" (Satyajit Ray).
Then I heard that the movie had drawn the ire of certain segments of the NRI community in the States, which reminded me of the Bollywood brouhaha over the memorable Pather
Panchali by Satyajit Ray half a century ago.
Greece was first noted in 1955, when Michael Cacoyannis' "Stella" gave an early hint of Melina Mercouri's screen clout, followed by her acting win in 1960 with "Never on Sunday." "father
Panchali," the first in Satyajit Ray's immortal "Apu" trilogy, won the Indian director a prize in 1956, the first of many international accolades.
And even then, his epochal Pather
Panchali (Ballad of the Road) or Gopalakrishnan's Swyamvaram (One's Own Choice) or Ghosh's Chokher Bali (The Constant Irritant) ...
Satyajit Ray's Pather
Panchali was ignored in his native Bengal, which woke up and celebrated the masterpiece after it won accolade at Cannes in 1956.
The Bengali film industry produced classics like Pather
Panchali, Devi, Jalsaghar, Devdas, and Meghe Dhaka Tara .
Oscar awardee Satyajit Ray (Pather
Panchali) had reportedly left a great influence on Luhrmann, 47, who claims to have seen Oscar nominated Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowarikar).
Could anything have been more insulting to a man who literally put Indian cinema on the world map at Cannes in 1956 with his immortal classic called Pather
Panchali. That Song of the Little Road led India to a mighty highway.
In ' The Palace of Illusions ' Chitra Divakaruni portrays
Panchali, the wife of the Pandavas from the Indian epic ' Mahabharata ', as a powerful, strong, and independent woman, an equal to the men around her rather than subservient.
" A medal is too big a dream for us, our concentration will be more on improving our ranking," coach
Panchali Tatkey told MAIL TODAY .
Freeze frame: the canvas of an autumn landscape in rural Bengal, immortalised in that three-minute frame from Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray's seminal offering Pather
Panchali (Ballad of the Road), with a steam engine puffing by the paddy fields.