60-years of Pather Panchali – the Bengali movie of Satyajit Ray that was a pathbreaker

Pather Panchali (the song of the little road) was the first movie of Satyajit Ray and it had premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on May 3, 1955 – the movie was screened once at the same venue this year to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the master's debut film.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 11 August 2015.

It depicts the life in a village of Bengal and each of its characters, from the children to the old men and women, portrayed lifelike renderings that made Pather Panchali a masterpiece.
Hailed as one of the most important works of world cinema, the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives has organized a seminar that will bring together some famous names from Indian cinema. The speakers would include three popular Bengali directors in Bollywood -Shoojit Sircar, Sujoy Ghosh and Dibakar Banerjee.
Other participants ae likely to be Dileep Padgaonkar, Sharmila Tagore, Aparna Sen, Suman Mukhopadhyay and Nandita Das. The event would be moderated by Dhritiman Chatterjee.
The movie had broken all cultural and linguistic barriers and had succeeded in reaching to the global audience. The seminar is expected to be held on August 30.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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