3/22/2023 0 Comments Music of pather panchali![]() In a telling recollection of that period, written in 1948 and titled ‘What Is Wrong with Indian Films?’ Ray is characteristically engaged on several fronts, simultaneously critical of much of Hollywood’s production, correcting the widely held misperception that cinema was a late arrival in India, and also addressing himself thoroughly to the titular question. Indeed, Ray himself frequently commented on the state of Indian cinema(s), and what he saw as the comparative lack of sophistication evident in so many of the products of his homeland, particularly when viewed against the films of several European directors with whose work Ray had become quite impressed during his period of residency in London. While it is certainly the case that Satyajit Ray’s (pronounced Sho-tyo-jit Rye) early masterpiece brought Indian cinema into wider critical and popular consciousness in the West, the domestic film industry in India had been thriving since long before Ray’s arrival on that scene. Pather Panchali is often cited as the film that put India on the cinematic map, but this view takes only one side of the relationship of recognition into account. ![]() Struggle and ultimately tragedy ensue, and Harihar’s return, and all of the hope and potential it held is sundered by Durga’s untimely death. Little Apu is the pride and hope of his family, and he carries great expectations on his tiny shoulders, especially when his father, Harihar sets off on a long and difficult journey to find work. The long-suffering mother, Sarbojya, is subjected to the ignominies of life so common to the poor, while her daughter Durga, a clever, often naughty girl who is tragically bereft of horizons, languishes under her mother’s stern discipline, but remains co-conspirator and friend of elderly Aunt Inder. In the lush Bengali countryside the struggles of everyday life for the Ray family unfold through the stories of its members. ![]()
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