| Parash Pathar | |
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| Directed by | Satyajit Ray |
| Screenplay by | Satyajit Ray |
| Based on | Paras Pathar by Parasuram |
| Produced by | Pramod Lahiri |
| Starring | Tulsi Chakrabarti Ranibala Devi Kali Banerjee Jahar Roy Gangapada Basu Haridhan Mukherjee Bireswar Sen Moni Srimani Chhabi Biswas Pahari Sanyal |
| Cinematography | Subrata Mitra |
| Edited by | Dulal Dutta |
| Music by | Ravi Shankar |
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Running time | 111 Mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Parash Pathar (Bengali: পরশ পাথর Porosh Pathor; English: The Philosopher's Stone; French: La Pierre Philosophale) is a 1958 Bengali language Indian fantasy comedy film. It was Satyajit Ray's first film outside of The Apu Trilogy.[1] It was also his first comedy and first magical realist film. Adapted from a short story of the same name by Parasuram (Rajsekhar Basu), the film offered an early glimpse of Ray's sense of humour, centered on a middle-class clerk who accidentally discovers a stone that can turn other objects into gold.
- ^ Sharmistha Gooptu (November 2010). Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation'. Routledge. pp. 152–. ISBN 978-1-136-91217-7.