Hi Everyone, This is my first post at IRI. I am filmmaker trying to make a film on Bengal and am trying to visit the place where the famous train scene from patter panchali was shot. I have searched a lot for the location and initially thought it was somewhere near Boral village where the movie village scenes were shot. But a post at another side said it was on the narrow gauge Ahmadpur to Katwa line. Now being a bit of a rail head I had planned to include a sequence on a narrow gauge train but dropped it when I heard that Madam Mamata Bannerjee is having it upgrading to broad gauge (when she was the Railway minister). Now with Satyajit Raj connection it would be great to confirm if indeed the line has been converted and if the broad gauge railway line is operational.
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it would be AMAZING if anyone knew where exactly the shot was taken on the Ahmadpur-Katwa line.
Reference: Pather Panchali 1955 (B/W Bangla) This was Satyajit Ray's debut film and first amongst the Apu trilogy. There are iconic train sequences showing a chugging train coming from a distance and leaving behind a trail of thick black smoke while the children Apu and Durga, much like loyal rail-fans, scamper through the fields to catch a glimpse of the train. The line depicted here was the Ahmadpur-Katwa narrow gauge section of Eastern Railway. (Contributed by Bhaskar Roy.)