Review: The Pather Panchali Sketchbook A book of sketches, essays and trivia on Satyajit Ray's famous first film. Shamik Bag. Updated 9 May 2016, 02:26 PM IST.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay is renowned as the creator of Pather Panchali, which was immortalised by filmmaker Satyajit Ray on screen in 1955. It is a lyrical ...

Kolkata: Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s sketch book for ‘Pather Panchali’, feared lost forever, has been resurrected by his son and a clutch of admir.

The film is an adaptation of the Bengali book by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, published in 1929. Pather Panchali, the film by legendary Satyajit Ray, is a world classic.

With a simple story about a young boy in a 1920s Bengal village, Satyajit Ray made one of the most quietly influential films of all time. Pather Panchali showed filmmakers such as Ismail Merchant ...