When Ray told him about his longstanding wish to film Pather Panchali, Renoir encouraged him to follow his dream. Ray, a founding member of the Calcutta Film Society, helped him scout for locations within the vicinity of Calcutta. In 1949, Jean Renoir had come to Calcutta to shoot his film ‘The River’ (1951).
Pather Panchali is based on a novel by the same name, written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay in 1929. Even the music was by a novice, Ravi Shankar, later to be famous.” The legend of the first film is inspiring how on the first day Ray had never directed a scene, his cameraman had never photographed one, his child actors had not even been tested for their roles–and how that early footage was so impressive it won the meager financing for the rest of the film.
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“Ray (1921-1992) was a commercial artist in Calcutta with little money and no connections when he determined to adapt a famous serial novel about the birth and young manhood of Apu–born in a rural village, formed in the holy city of Benares, educated in Calcutta, then a wanderer. Roger Ebert, the renowned film critic wrote about the veteran filmmaker and his film, Pather Panchali: The entire crew of Pather Panchali had a day-job and the shooting was hence done over the weekends. He used to work with an advertising agency as an illustrator and wrote for an in-house magazine for kids. Satyajit Ray had no experience of directing, shooting or writing a film. Our films, equipped with all the technical finesse and aesthetic sense, have never been able to recreate the magic that Satyajit Ray conjured up way back in 1955 with Pather Panchali, a Bengali film that speaks a universal language of human emotions. The strains of sitar by Pandit Ravi Shankar punctuates the imagery strewn with bounties of mother nature. The raindrops create ripples in the pond, leaving the kids mesmerized. Two young siblings, holding their hands, watch a train pass through the fields.
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