Landmark Works

Pather Panchali

PAH-ter PAHN-chah-lee

Also Known As Song of the Little Road

Sound Film

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Film and Media Atlas. "Pather Panchali." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/works/pather-panchali.

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Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Pather Panchali. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/works/pather-panchali

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-pather-panchali,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Pather Panchali},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/works/pather-panchali},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Satyajit Ray's 1955 first film, the childhood of the boy Apu in a poor Bengali village, shot on location with a largely amateur cast and scored by Ravi Shankar. Its prize at Cannes in 1956 announced Indian art cinema to the world and began the Apu Trilogy.

Facts

Release Year

1955 1

Country

India 1

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Created By

Satyajit Ray

Source Encyclopedia Britannica

In Medium

Film

Source Encyclopedia Britannica

Sources

1. Encyclopedia Britannica

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