Best Bangla Movies of All time

Over the last 50 years, Bangla feature films have been entertaining generations of cine-goers. Although recent times have seen a decline in its standards, our film industry had produced an extensive list of movies that were and still remain a source of pride for all Bangladeshis. Here's a glance at films that have become iconic in our culture for a number of reasons. While some of these films have been in limelight for becoming cash cows, others have fueled heated controversies, some started new trends, and some have fetched us international glory. (ref: www.murchona.com/forum)

Satyajit Ray (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing the Italian neorealist film The Bicycle Thief during a visit to London.

Ray directed thirty-seven films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali, won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Document at Cannes. Along with Aparajito and Apur Sansar, the film forms the Apu trilogy. Ray worked on an array of tasks, including scripting, casting, scoring, cinematography, art direction, editing and designing his own credit titles and publicity material. Apart from making films, he was a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer and film critic. Ray received many major awards in his career, including an Academy Honorary Award in 1992.