As we celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, we revisit a piece that celebrated American filmmaker Martin Scorsese penned for Indian Express in 2020. He wrote about the inimitable Ray, “For those of us here in the West, the Apu trilogy — Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959) — was a milestone. We were used to seeing India on screen but through a purely colonial perspective, which obviously meant that the principal characters were Westerners and the “extras”, the people who provided the local colour and the background detail, were Indians. We had no idea whether the stories were happening in Gujarat, Kashmir, West Bengal or Maharashtra — it was just ‘India’.” (Photo: AP and Express Archive)