'Pather Panchali' (Song of the Road) was made on a shoestring budget of Rs 150,000 and featured mostly amateur actors but it is Ray's most famous film.
With 31 votes 'Pather Panchali' came at the 42 place in 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 best 50 films from the world cinema in the poll, which takes place once in a decade.
