Pather Panchali

The opening and credits, citing the original novel by Bibhutibhusan (Banerjee) Bandyopadhyay, from director Satyajit Ray’s landmark first feature, Pather Panchali, 1955, after almost four years in production, beginning what became the “Apu Trilogy.”

The neighbor Mrs Mukherji (Reva Devi) and daughter (Rama Gangopadhaya) visit to accuse sister Durga (Uma Das Gupta) of stealing a necklace, also fruit, which is an issue dating back years, confronting mother (Karuna Banerji), as Apu (Subir Banerji) and auntie (Chunibala Devi) observe, in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, 1955.

The first appearance of the dreamy father Harihar (Kanu Banerjee), waxing almost irrational for wife Sarbajaya (Karuna Banerjee), young Durga (Runki Banerjee) about as the old aunt (Chunibala Devi) rocks newborn Apu, in Satyajit Ray's celebrated Pather Panchali, 1955.

Apu (Subir Banerjee) is more grown up, his father (Kanu Banerjee) still philosophical, as the mother (Karuna Banerjee) tends to now adolescent Durga (Uma Das Gupta), the old aunt (Chunibala Devi) still with them, in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, 1955.

The opening of director Satyajit Ray's landmark first feature is dominated by the cranky neighbor (Reva Devi), complaining about young Durga (Runkee Banerjee), well within earshot of her mother (Karuna Banerjee), in Pather Panchali, 1955, music by Ravi Shankar.