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Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray's fad film, Pather Panchali which was released in 1955 has been selected as one of the best foreign films of all time.

As per BBC's 100 best films, Pather Panchali stands at the 15th position.

The movie is a Bengali film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and was produced by the Government of West Bengal.

Over 200 critics from 43 countries took part in the poll, which judged Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai as the number one film not in the English language.

The poll narrowed down 100 films from 67 different directors, from 24 countries, and in 19 languages. "27 of the highest-rated films were in French, followed by 12 in Mandarin, and 11 each in Italian and Japanese," according to the BBC.

The website also mentions that four of the 100 films have been directed by women. However, it said that 45 percent of the critics who took part in the poll were women.

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The selected film, Pather Panchali depicts the childhood of the protagonist Apu (Subir Banerjee) and his elder sister Durga (Uma Dasgupta) and the harsh village life of their poor family.

-Sowmya