By Hindustan Times
Filmmaker Satyajit Ray's 1955 classic Pather Panchali has featured within the 50 greatest films of all time list, which was dominated by Alfred Hichcock's thriller Vertigo. Pather Panchali (Song of the street) was made on a shoestring budget of Rs. 150,000 and featured mostly amateur actors but
it is Ray's most renowned film.
With 31 votes Pather Panchali came on the 42 place within the Sight & Sound poll. The film is a lyrical, closely observed story of a peasant family in 1920s rural India.
Some 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors voted the most productive 50 films from the arena cinema within the poll, which occurs once in a decade.
