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Pather Panchali
Pather Panchali tells the story of an impoverished Bengalese family. And priest Harihar Ray,dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, decides to leave his rural Bengal village in search of work.
3 March 1899, Howrah, Bengal Presidency, British India
25 December 1919, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
11 February 1911, Dhaka, Bangladesh
20 June 1905, Jodhpur, State of Jodhpur, British India
1872
March 22, 2015
Satyajit Ray's glowingly hardscrabble debut
May 04, 2015
Beautiful, sometimes funny, and full of love, it brought a new vision of India to the screen.
October 24, 2007
Film justly won the 'most human document award' at the 1956 Cannes Film Fest, unveiling a mature film talent in director Satyajit Ray.
January 16, 2015
...truly one of the most delicate, humble and deeply felt movies I've ever seen.
April 03, 2017
Incredibly, Ray had never directed a scene before Pather Panchali, Mitra had never shot one, and the children who were cast hadn't even been tested. Just how this team of novices fashioned one of cinema's enduring classics is a miraculous mystery.
April 03, 2017
Extremely touching in its simplicity, emotional range and visual beauty, it's no wonder it became the first Indian film to achieve widespread international acclaim and establish Ray as a master filmmaker.
October 17, 2011
It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand.
June 19, 2015
The rewards are rich and unforgettable.
October 24, 2007
Satyajit Ray's beautiful first feature.
August 24, 2010
There is a faith in the art form here, a pure, loving, embracing faith that really restores my own faith in movies.
October 24, 2007
Fresh as a daisy after all these years, Satyajit Ray's 1955 spellbinder comes underpinned by a tumultuous Ravi Shankar sitar and paints a ground's-eye portrait of life in an impoverished Bengali village.
