Abstract
ABSTRACTWidely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century, the Indian Satyajit Ray (1921–92) was also a screenwriter, graphic artist, and music composer. He was additionally a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, and movie critic. Ray directed thirty-six films, including features, documentaries, and shorts. His first motion picture, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959), forms The Apu Trilogy. Ray received many major awards during his career, including thirty-two Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival), a Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival), two Silver Bears (Berlin Film Festival), and an Honorary Academy Award in 1992. This essay reconsiders not only Pather Panchali in the context of Satyajit Ray’s film oeuvre, but also Ray’s entire oeuvre itself in the context of global as well as Indian cinema.
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