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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AwardBAFTA Award for Best Film 1 AwardBodil Award for Best American Film 1 AwardNational Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1 AwardNational Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film 1 AwardNational Film Award for Best Feature Film 1 Release Year Connections
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1. Wikidata: Pather Panchali
Wikidata Q622380, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Encyclopedia Britannica
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Pather Panchali (Bengali pronunciation: [pɔtʰer pãtʃali] , transl. Song Of The Little Road) is a 1955 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray in his directorial debut.
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