Kolkata/IBNS, June 6 -- Maestro Satyajit Ray completed his debut masterpiece Pather Panchali in 1955 with financial support from the West Bengal government led by then Chief Minister Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy.

Nearly seven decades later, a film chronicling the making of Pather Panchali found itself at the centre of a controversy.

Directed by filmmaker Anik Dutta, Aparajito was denied a screening at Nandan, the state-run film and cultural complex closely associated with Ray, following its release in 2022 during the tenure of then Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

While the reasons for the decision were never officially clarified, critics alleged that Dutta's vocal criticism of the Trinamool Congress government and his ideological positions m...