TABLACENTRIC, Robin Sukhadia’s Artist Residency at Machine Project, continues with a special film screening on Sunday, March 16, 2008, at 4pm of Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece, Pathar Panchali. The film features classical north Indian music scored by Ravi Shankar.

Pather Panchali is the 1955 directorial debut of Satyajit Ray. It is the first film in Ray’s Apu trilogy and depicts a boy’s childhood in the Indian countryside in the early twentieth century. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by noted Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. The film is often included in lists of greatest movies of all time.

“The first film by the masterly Satyajit Ray - possibly the most unembarrassed and natural of directors - is a quiet reverie about the life of an impoverished Brahman family in a Bengali village. Beautiful, sometimes funny, and full of love, it brought a new vision of India to the screen.”
- Pauline Kael

“A beautiful picture, completely fresh and personal. (Ray’s camera) reaches forward into life, exploring and exposing, with reverence and wonder.”
- Lindsay Anderson