These three pictures, Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1957), and Apur Sansar (1959), follow a boy named Apu as he becomes a teenager, a promising student, and then a grown-up with a wife and son.

The film is Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), and the filmmaker is Satyajit Ray. Satyajit Ray’s films are deeply rooted in reality. They tap into the most complex emotions and motivations ...

খবরে প্রকাশ যে, বাংলাদেশের ময়মনসিংহ শহরে সত্যজিৎ রায়ের ঠাকুরদা, স্বয়ং স্বনামধন্য সাহিত্যিক-সম্পাদক উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়চৌধুরীর স্মৃতিজড়িত তাঁদের পৈতৃক বাড়িটি নাকি ভেঙে ফেলা হচ্ছে। ভাঙার কাজ শুরু ...

In the turbulent 1970s, Satyajit Ray turned his lens on Kolkata — a city caught between political unrest, corporate greed and moral collapse. Through his iconic Calcutta trilogy, Ray crafted an ...

Even before The Simpsons, the whole world knew the name Apu. That began with an unprecedented portrait of rural Indian boyhood in Satyajit Ray's 1955 debut Pather Panchali (which won Best Director and ...

Ray debuted with “Pather Panchali” (1955) the first part of the magisterial Apu Trilogy, which won best human document at Cannes. The Trilogy includes “Aparajito” (1956) and “Apur Sansar ...

The ancestral home of Satyajit Ray, which had previously served as the Mymensingh Shishu Academy, is currently being torn down to make room for a new semi-concrete building. This historic house ...

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is honoring the centenary of cinema giant Satyajit Ray with a major two-part retrospective. May 2, 2021 was the birth centenary of Ray, the Indian master who ...

Devi follows the triumphant "Apu" trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu) of India's young producerdirector, Satyajit Ray. If it does not quite measure up to the earlier ...

Satyajit Ray: Maharajah of Movies The Criterion Channel celebrates what would have been the great Indian filmmaker’s 100th birthday by streaming 16 of his features, both famous and lesser-known By ...

Trains play a vital role in the trilogy, linking people and places and helping to make India, Indian. That’s also what Ray’s films did for several generations.