Rays' was a cinema of thought and feeling, in which emotion was deliberately restrained because it is so strong. When Ray sends his camera beyond the village, the observer can sense the allure and freedom of the vast fields that spring immodestly from a thin, winding trail. The viewer immediately feels the cramped conditions of the families' decaying house and the open-air confines of the surrounding forest. In "Pather Panchali" (Song of the Little Road") Ray makes superb use of his milieu. He made films in his own style dignified and subtle sincere and with a conscience. He favored using non-actors and shooting on location to heighten the realism. Ray generally concentrated on small subjects and ordinary people. He believed that the raw material of cinema was life itself. His films contained very few strains of artifice. Ray created ordinary scenes that were incredibly life-like. The filmmaker, who came from a literary and artistic background(He was a product of the Indian Renaissance) was interested in the contemporary problems of his country-and he shared with the Neorealist films from Italy- a simple and direct approach to making movies. ![]() Ray adapted the script from Bibhuti Bihushaw Banerjee's semi-autobiographical novel of the same title and retells it with natural beauty and a quiet perspective. It is an affecting story of a rural family struggling to deal with poverty and tragedy in their ancestral home. ![]() "Pather Panchali", Satyajit Ray's debut film about life in a Bengali village, was the first movie from India to gain wide recognition and acclaim in the west.
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