Bansi Chandragupta production designer Eugène Lourié and learned the craft of film designing. During the shooting of this movie, he met Satyajit Ray who asked him to join a group of film enthusiasts to form the Calcutta Film Society. Later, Ray asked Chandragupta to be set designer for his film "Pather Panchali". This collaboration sustained till "Shatranj Ke Khilari" (1977). Some of the best examples of Chandragupta's work are from the Ray films: "Pather Panchali", "Jalsaghar" and "Charulata". Apart from Ray's films, best works of Chandragupta's works are visible in "36 Chowringhee Lane" by Aparna Sen, "Umrao Jaan" by Muzzafar Ali and
Pather Panchali from Ray's drawings and notes. Ray completed the first draft of the notes during his sea voyage to and from London in 1950. Before principal photography began, he created a storyboard dealing with details and continuity. Years later, he donated those drawings and notes to Cinémathèque Française. In Apur Panchali (the Bengali translation of "", 1994), Ray wrote that he had omitted many of the novel's characters and that he had rearranged some of its sequences to make the narrative better as cinema. Changes include Indir's death, which occurs early in the novel at a village shrine in the presence