‘they don’t know how to push a camera button and they think they are going to do a masterpiece’ _’ Pather Panchali is the tale of a double apprenticeship : Apu experimenting with life and death and Ray learning the art of filmmaking. Ray even said ‘some of the delays in the making appeared to have been blessings in disguise’. Chidananda Dasgupta followed the shooting of Pather Panchali from close by, his record is from the source.

this short film is branch#11 of a big tree entitled ‘memories of ray’