{"id":283,"date":"2004-08-27T04:34:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T09:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=283"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"satyajit_rays_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/satyajit_rays_p\/","title":{"rendered":"Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” turns fifty."},"content":{"rendered":"

i think that “pather panchali” was the greatest film to come out of india, ever. yesterday marked the fiftieth anniversary<\/a> of its premiere:<\/p>\n\n

KOLKATA: It was May 3, 1955. The debut film of one Satyajit Ray opened a week-long festival at New York’s MOMA. On August 26 the same year, Pather Panchali opened to Indian audiences at Basusree.<\/blockquote>\n\n
And, in a near-repeat of the phenomenon, four months after Cannes conferred an award on it, the film won the President’s Gold. That prompted the 35-year-old Ray to give up a handsome monthly salary of Rs 1,013 and shoot the sequel, Aparajito. And it changed the face of Indian cinema.<\/blockquote>\n\n
As the film steps into its 50th year, it’s time for flashbacks…<\/blockquote>\n\n
…Soumitra Chatterjee saw it the next day, “and was stupefied.” Till then, he’d weigh every Bengali film against How Green Was My Valley, or Bicycle Thieves. So disappointment was inevitable.<\/blockquote>\n\n
Pather Panchali dispelled that, “it spelled hope for Indian cinema. No, we’d not seen anything like it,” the actor repeats. “Aparajito, Jalsaghar, Charulata were better crafted, but the raw emotion of Pather Panchali has no parallel.”<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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