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Pather Panchali in BBC's best foreign language films list


Pather Panchali in BBC's best foreign language films list

In the list of BBC’s 100 best foreign language films, 'Pather Pachali' has found a spot. The 1955 film is the only Bangla film which has made it to the BBC's list. 'Pather Pachali', translated as Song of the Road, is a novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, and was later adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray.

Satyajit Ray's masterpiece 'Pather Panchali' has been included by BBC's 100 best foreign language films. Ray's film, released in 1955 and the first in his 'Apu' trilogy, was placed at number 15 in the list, which has been topped by Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'.

The list was culled out from a poll where over 200 critics from 43 countries picked their best foreign language film.

It all narrowed down to 100 films from 67 different directors, from 24 countries, and in 19 languages.

27 of the highest-rated films were in French, followed by 12 in Mandarin, and 11 each in Italian and Japanese, according to the BBC.

Some of the notable films that featured in the list are -- Kurosawa's 'Rashomon ', Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love', Andrei Tarkovsky's 'The Mirror', Asghar Farhadi's 'A Separation', Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth', Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' and Alfonso Cuaron's 'Y Tu Mama Tambien', among others.

The BBC admitted that only four of the 100 films have been directed by women. However, it said that 45 per cent of the critics who took part in the poll were women.

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