Streaming Platform: Hoichoi, JioCinema, AirtelXstreamĪbout an ageing Bengali zamindar (Chhabi Biswas), clinging onto the vestiges of past glory, it is known for its extraordinary music and a famous kathak dance sequence. It is like a prayer, affirming that this is what the cinema can be, no matter how far in our cynicism we may stray.” Jalsaghar (1958) Roger Ebert reviewed the film glowingly, “It is about a time, place and culture far removed from our own, and yet it connects directly and deeply with our human feelings. The second film in Ray’s filmography, but also of the Apu trilogy, it follows Apu’s (Pinaki Sen Gupta) family as they travel to the holy city of Benares along Ganga’s shore. The saga of a young boy, Apu, (Subir Banerjee) in an impoverished village, it was completed with a loan from the West Bengal government, and pawning family jewelry and books, and ended up winning 11 international prizes including “Best Human Documentary” at the Cannes Film Festival.ĭuring its late night premiere at Cannes, renowned critic Francois Truffaunt had walked out, and said, “I don’t want to see a movie of peasants eating with their hands.” But Cannes awakened to this new talent, regardless, had another screening the following afternoon.Īlso Read: From Pather Panchali To Masaan: Glimpses Of India’s Film Journey At Cannes Streaming Platform: Eros Now, JioCinema, Hoichoi, AirtelXstream The following films are not available with subtitles: Parash Pathar (1958), Devi (1960), Shakha Proshakha (1990).Īlso Read: Posterphilia: The Poster Designs of Satyajit Ray Pather Panchali (1955) Here is a list of all his films that are available on streaming. Now on with the other two then.Also Read: Photographer Nemai Ghosh’s Iconic Photos From Satyajit Ray Sets And Moreĭescribed by Martin Scorsese as one of “the four greats” alongside Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, he won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement at the age of 71, which he accepted from his hospital bed. Pather Panchali is one of the best films I have ever seen. The feeling I got today from Pather Panchali, is as close as is possible from that fateful October day. On 4th Oct 2003, I saw my all time favourite film, Tokyo Story. Together, these myriad parts melded into a whole so grand in its social consciousness, so incisively intimate in its portrait of one family, I could do nothing but be slowly devoured like a most willing prey. The musical scoring, by the great Ravi Shankar, is identifiably Indian, yet universally sublime. Its breath taking cinematography ranks alongside existential beauty this side of Malick heaven. Pather Panchali boasts of suitably melodramatic yet highly intuitive performances. Those few characters' state of mind and their relationship dynamics at that point in time, was conveyed with such explosive intensity, I got gut punched drunk. There is this one scene in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali when the eruption of a conflict between Apu's family and a quarrelsome neighbour brought the film to a complete standstill (for me anyway).
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