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Pather Panchali

PAH-ter PAHN-chah-lee
Also Known As Song of the Little Road
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Satyajit Ray's 1955 first film, the childhood of the boy Apu in a poor Bengali village, shot on location with a largely amateur cast and scored by Ravi Shankar. Its prize at Cannes in 1956 announced Indian art cinema to the world and began the Apu Trilogy.

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1955 1
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India 1
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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