Pather Panchali focuses on a rural Brahman family ... but it seems unconscious symbolism--a tribute to his art. Water flies darting on a pond, water lilies lifting wildly in a sudden gale, warm ...

Ray requested my father to let me act. But my father agreed only on the condition that I return home before dusk,' Tushar ...

Pather Panchali is such a heartbreakingly beautiful work of art, any technical embellishment seems redundant.