Satyajit Ray’s Pather PanchaliDurga Roy aka Uma Dasgupta passes away

Satyajit Ray's Pather PanchaliDurga Roy aka Uma Dasgupta passes away

Bengali actress Uma Dasgupta died on Monday after a prolonged illness. The actress was hospitalized for a few days. She was best known for her role as Durga Roy in the iconic 1955 film Pather PanchaliDirected by Satyajit Ray. Celebrities from all walks of life have paid emotional tributes to Uma Dasgupta. Trinamool Congress leader (TMC) MP and author Kunal Ghosh shared a note in Bengali for the actress on Facebook. The note roughly translates to, “The Durga of Pather Panchali is now truly gone.”

According to a Times Now report, the news of Uma Dasgupta’s death was confirmed by actor Chiranjeet Chakraborty. Chiranjeet said that he received the heartbreaking news from Uma Dasgupta’s daughter.

According to reports, Uma Dasgupta never entered mainstream cinema after this. Pather PanchaliDirected by Satyajit Ray, the film was an adaptation of Vibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s 1929 Bengali novel of the same name. Apart from Uma Dasgupta, the project stars Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Pinaki Sengupta and Chunnibala Devi in ​​lead roles.

In October last year, American filmmaker Martin Scorsese recalled watching the English-dubbed version Pather Panchali ,song of small road) on TV in New York. Recalling his experience, the director told PTI, “So from that point on, cinema opened up many different worlds for me. I wonder what it would be like to be a colonized person and a broader part of the colonized world that you live in.”

Martin Scorsese continued, “And I said, ‘Wait a minute, these are the same people I usually see in the background of other movies. What’s the difference here?’ The difference is that this film is being made by them, by real people, and I’m being introduced to another culture and another way of thinking, a whole other way of life and the universality of how we are all, fundamentally, human beings. are the same as.”

The first film in the Apu Trilogy, Pather PanchaliBeautifully portrays the childhood struggles of Apu and his elder sister Durga as they go through the harsh realities of their poor rural life. Apu’s journey continues in the two subsequent films of the trilogy: Aparajito (The Unvanquished, 1956) and poor world (The World of Apu, 1959).



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