When Satyajit Ray was making Pather Panchali in the 1950s, he could not possibly have known that five decades later, the film will remain relevant for cinema enthusiast across the world, and feature in the list of best films for years to come. Surprisingly, the icon of art house cinema, was confident that he was not making a film for a niche audience but the general mass.

The scene where Apu and Durga run to see a train thunder past them