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Pather Panchali (Song of the Road) First film in the Apu trilogy, showing life in a small Indian village, centering on young Apu. The story of Apu originally appeared in serial form in a Calcutta journal in 1928. Apu (Subir Banerjee) is born to a poor Brahmin family living in its ancestral village. Apu lives with his ineffectual poet father, weary mother, mischievous…    more      The Clay Bird The young student Anu (Nurul Islam Bablu) is torn between the worlds of Hindu and Muslim religions in this Bangladeshi film directed by Tareque Masud. Set in the 1960s in Pakistan before Bangladesh gained its independence in 1971, the film portrays many opposing political opinions and various religious sects all agitating each other in…    more      The World of Apu Satyajit Ray is believed to be one of motion picture's most important luminaries, a truly magic lantern in the dark of every modern theater. His films have shaped the course of Indian cinema, not to mention moviemaking at large. Ray embodied the auteur ideal. He wrote his own scripts, shot his own footage, did his own editing and composed…    more