Saturday May 2nd was what would have been Satyajit Ray's 88th birthday (he died in 1993 shortly after receiving an honorary Oscar) and to celebrate I made a playlist for youtube so you can watch his acclaimed debut film Pather Panchali
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AB643E435E096E42
The film is the first in the famous Apu Trilogy, about a man's life from his birth and impoverished childhood in rural India, to his adolescence in Benares to his adulthood in Calcutta.
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) is about his childhood and brought Satyajit Ray's uniquely beautiful and hauntingly realistic depiction of India to a world who'd only seen the country through the rose tinted lenses of Bollywood.
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