---
title: 'Parash Pathar (1958)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Satyajit Ray'
released: '1958-01-17'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'India'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/parash-pathar-1958'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052046/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Parash Pathar (1958)

1958 · 90 min · Drama, Comedy · India

Original title: পরশ পাথর

## Synopsis

Parash Pathar is a 1958 Indian Bengali language fantasy comedy film. It was Satyajit Ray's first film outside of The Apu Trilogy. It was also his first comedy and first magical realist film. Adapted from a short story of the same name by Parasuram, 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Satyajit Ray](https://cinepixo.com/people/satyajit-ray)
- **Screenplay:** [Satyajit Ray](https://cinepixo.com/people/satyajit-ray)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ravi Shankar](https://cinepixo.com/people/ravi-shankar)
- **Director of Photography:** [Subrata Mitra](https://cinepixo.com/people/subrata-mitra)
- **Editor:** [Dulal Dutta](https://cinepixo.com/people/dulal-dutta)

## Cast

- [Jahor Roy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jahor-roy)
- [Tulsi Chakraborty](https://cinepixo.com/people/tulsi-chakraborty)
- [Kali Banerjee](https://cinepixo.com/people/kali-banerjee)
- [Gangapada Basu](https://cinepixo.com/people/gangapada-basu)
- [Pahari Sanyal](https://cinepixo.com/people/pahari-sanyal)
- [Chhabi Biswas](https://cinepixo.com/people/chhabi-biswas)

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