Sri Lanka, Dec. 27 -- Book: My Years with ApuAuthor: Satyajit RayPublisher: Penguin Books

My Years with Apu is a memoir of Satyajit Ray, one of the great film directors of the 20th century. It describes how he embarked on the film making career, his early struggles in it and how his masterpiece Pather Panchali was made.

When the film Pather Panchali was launched in 1955, Ray was 34 years old. At the time, cinema in Calcutta where Satyajit was born and grown up, mostly gave amusement to the people. They looked at the life at the surface level, and hadn't any artistic value either. Satyajit Ray is the first to establish artistic cinema, giving insights into the life, not just in Calcutta, but whole India mainly through his trilogy Pather ...