When you unwrap the history of Indian Cinema, the one name and one cinema that were etched in golden letters were Satyajit Ray and Pather Panchali. Directed with low budget in the year Pather Panchali is one film that has been protecting the prestige of Indian Cinema at the international level. While this movie was screened at many film festivals and received n number of honours, recently it has got position among world's top 50 best pictures so far.

Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali stood in 42nd position in greatest films of all time list. It has dominated the movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo. Pather Panchali revolves around a poor peasant family and is a Bengali movie, which has received critical acclaims by some of the world's best film critics.

(AW Phani)