Pather Panchali

"From that point on, cinema opened to me many different worlds," Martin Scorsese said

The best movies on Amazon Prime Video in India include The Dark Knight, The Florida Project, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mad Max: Fury Road, Maqbool, The Matrix, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, A Separation, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Pather Panchali.

In a one-on-one, ground-breaking French filmmaker Claire Denis throws light on the creative credo that drives her cinema, the impact Pather Panchali had on her as a child, the casting of Victor Banerjee in her most recent film and the experience of watching a Bollywood movie being shot in a Mumbai studio.

Shah Rukh Khan's film Zero is the closing movie for the Beijing International film Festival

Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy, based on Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's novels, instantly placed Mr Ray and Indian cinema on the world map

Madhur Bhandarkar remembered the legendary director whose first film Pather Panchali won 11 international awards, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival

A number of religious paintings, rare books, prints, photographs including an original poster of Satyajit Ray's iconic film 'Pather Panchali' will go under the hammer in a two-day online auction beginning tomorrow.

The Apu Trilogy depicts the life of Apu in Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito(1956), and Apur Sansar (1959). A masterpiece that realistically and placidly portrays Indian society - Satyajit Ray is known as a master of Asian film as well as the father of Indian cinema, a statement said

"Actually I copy him. You won't notice what I copy but I know what I am copying. I do it in whatever film I do. It is the Bible of my life," Mr Sircar said at an event in Kolkata which was organised to celebrate 60 years of the release of Pather Panchali

Superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee recalls how captivated he was as a child while watching Satyajit Ray's films on children.

Not since Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali has an Indian film garnered as much encomium from the hard-to-please western critics as Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox. He is overwhelmed.

Having watched Pather Panchali at a younger age, and seen Satyajit Ray's other works, actor Radhika Apte feels the Bengali independent directors are more influenced by the "rich cultural content" of the place.

Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali is the inspiration behind Thursday's Google doodle.

Google celebrates Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray's 92nd birth anniversary with a Doodle depicting a famous scene - of the young Durga and Apu running through fields - from possibly his most famous film, Pather Panchali.

Summing up his four-decade-long association with Satyajit Ray, who took Indian cinema to international audiences, as "fruitful" and "friendly", veteran cinematographer Soumendu Roy describes the legendary filmmaker as "meticulous" and "troubleshooter".

"From that point on, cinema opened to me many different worlds," Martin Scorsese said

The best movies on Amazon Prime Video in India include The Dark Knight, The Florida Project, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mad Max: Fury Road, Maqbool, The Matrix, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, A Separation, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Pather Panchali.

In a one-on-one, ground-breaking French filmmaker Claire Denis throws light on the creative credo that drives her cinema, the impact Pather Panchali had on her as a child, the casting of Victor Banerjee in her most recent film and the experience of watching a Bollywood movie being shot in a Mumbai studio.

Shah Rukh Khan's film Zero is the closing movie for the Beijing International film Festival

Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy, based on Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's novels, instantly placed Mr Ray and Indian cinema on the world map

Madhur Bhandarkar remembered the legendary director whose first film Pather Panchali won 11 international awards, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival

A number of religious paintings, rare books, prints, photographs including an original poster of Satyajit Ray's iconic film 'Pather Panchali' will go under the hammer in a two-day online auction beginning tomorrow.

The Apu Trilogy depicts the life of Apu in Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito(1956), and Apur Sansar (1959). A masterpiece that realistically and placidly portrays Indian society - Satyajit Ray is known as a master of Asian film as well as the father of Indian cinema, a statement said

"Actually I copy him. You won't notice what I copy but I know what I am copying. I do it in whatever film I do. It is the Bible of my life," Mr Sircar said at an event in Kolkata which was organised to celebrate 60 years of the release of Pather Panchali

Superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee recalls how captivated he was as a child while watching Satyajit Ray's films on children.

Not since Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali has an Indian film garnered as much encomium from the hard-to-please western critics as Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox. He is overwhelmed.

Having watched Pather Panchali at a younger age, and seen Satyajit Ray's other works, actor Radhika Apte feels the Bengali independent directors are more influenced by the "rich cultural content" of the place.

Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali is the inspiration behind Thursday's Google doodle.

Google celebrates Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray's 92nd birth anniversary with a Doodle depicting a famous scene - of the young Durga and Apu running through fields - from possibly his most famous film, Pather Panchali.

Summing up his four-decade-long association with Satyajit Ray, who took Indian cinema to international audiences, as "fruitful" and "friendly", veteran cinematographer Soumendu Roy describes the legendary filmmaker as "meticulous" and "troubleshooter".