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Subir Banerjee is an Indian actor who is famous for his movie Pather Panchali. He appeared in the role of a boy named Apu, who is about seven-years-old in the film. Pather Panchali was a movie directed by Satyajit Ray Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick >> Read More... . Before starting shooting for the motion picture, he was searching for a small kid to play Apu but in vain. Eventually, Subir Banerjee got the role. He was their neighbor, and Satyajit Ray’s wife Bijoya Ray Born in April 1917 and died in June 2015; this jou >> Read More... discovered him playing on the terraces. Even after bagging the role, his father did not want Subir to take up acting.

Nevertheless, the influential director and writer Satyajit Ray convinced his father. He told Subir’s father that his movie would change the face of cinema in West Bengal, and then both Satyajit Ray himself and Subir will be famous. The father was convinced, and shooting began in 1952. Pather Panchali means ‘The Song of the Little Road’ in the English Language. It released in 1955. It took three years to complete. It took so much time because Satyajit Ray didn’t have the funds to finish shooting for the movie. Thus, work on the picture got stalled for a total of eight months.

During this time, Satyajit Ray was anxious that Subir Banerjee would go through puberty, and his voice would crack due to the fact. Fortunately, his voice did not change throughout the making of the film. The Government of Bengal itself produced this movie. Subir did not have any acting experience in the past, and thus, there was some difficulty in the parts where he was involved. Apa, the character he plays has an elder sister named Durga, which was played by actress Uma Dasgupta Uma Dasgupta was born and raised in Bengal and had >> Read More... . In one scene, he has to look for Durga on a farm and thus run with breaks and have a searching look on his face.

However, he didn’t comply, and the filmmaker had to place obstacles in his path to accomplish that scene. Pather Panchali was Subir’s only film. He disappeared from the industry totally after Pather Panchali. It is a fact that he worked in a factory and also as a clerk in a government office after that. A film derived from the life of Subir titled Apur Panchali. Kaushik Ganguly Kaushik Ganguly is an Indian director who worke >> Read More... directed the motion picture, and he was awarded Best Director for it. Parambrata Chatterjee Parambrata Chatterjee, born on 27th June 1980, is >> Read More... and Ardhendu Banerjee He is an Indian actor in the film industry. He has >> Read More... play the role of Subir at different ages.