In 2012, the decadal rating of all-time great films of the British Film Institute’s journal Sight and Sound, the only Indian film to come in the 100 film list was ‘Pather Panchali’. With critics polling it as the 41st great film and directors rating it as 48th, the Satyajit Ray film has been surviving the test of time for a few decades in that prestigious global list of all-time great films.