Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)

Tasked with creating illustrations for a new edition of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel Pather Panchali, Ray was so captivated by the story of the Roy family―father Harihar, mother Sarbajaya, daughter Durga, baby brother Apu, and widowed aunt Indir― that he became a filmmaker in order to adapt it.