Indian cinema, popular and auteur

In 1955 a young advertising graphic artist shot in Bengal, on location and without stars, the story of a poor family and two children running to watch a train go by: Pather Panchali brought India into world auteur cinema. Ritwik Ghatak filmed the refugees of the Bengal partition, Mrinal Sen invented a political comedy. In Bombay at the same time, the industry produced sung melodramas for millions of spectators, and Guru Dutt slipped into one the portrait of a poet whom society rejects.

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• NovelPather Panchali: Song of the Little Roadপথের পাঁচালীBibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay · 1929A boy's childhood in a poor village in Bengal, at the beginning of the twentieth century, seen at the level of the seasons and of play.Literature
• CinemaTwo Acres of Landदो बीघा ज़मीनBimal Roy · 1953An indebted peasant who goes off to pull a rickshaw in Calcutta to save his plot of land.Cinema
• CinemaPather Panchaliপথের পাঁচালীSatyajit Ray · 1955A boy's childhood in a poor village in Bengal, among his mother, his sister and an old aunt.Cinema
• CinemaPyaasaप्यासाGuru Dutt · 1957An unrecognised poet in post-independence Calcutta, between a prostitute who admires him and a youthful love won over by money.Cinema
• CinemaThe Cloud-Capped Starমেঘে ঢাকা তারাRitwik Ghatak · 1960The first part of a trilogy on the Partition, filmed by a man whom it had driven from his home thirteen years earlier.Cinema
• CinemaBhuvan Shomeभुवन शोमMrinal Sen · 1969A rigid bureaucrat on a hunting holiday in the Indian countryside: a satirical comedy that mixes animation, newsreel footage and voice-over.Cinema