29 JUNE 2013 | FILM SCREENING | THE SATURDAY EVENING SHOW IN COLLABORATION WITH NAZARIYA

Pather Panchali is an Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. His parents are quite poor – his father Harihar, a writer and poet, gave away the family’s fruit orchard to settle his brother’s debts. His mother scrapes by and sells her personal possessions to put food on the table and has to bear the taunts of her neighbors as Durga his sister is always stealing fruit from their orchard. Things get worse when Harihar disappears for five months and Durga falls ill. Even after Harihar returns, the family is left with few alternatives.

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