Aurora Film Corporation Banabehari Shaw. Unfortunately after the lease lapsed, the studio was demolished. The company currently maintains a studio in the Salt Lake neighbourhood of Kolkata, and a post-production facility in Tollygunj. Aurora was involved in the distribution and/or production of several acclaimed films. The company bought Pramathesh Barua's production company (Barua Pictures), and produced two films starring Barua, "Pujari" and "Niyoti". Aurora was the distributor for Satyajit Ray's debut film "Pather Panchali" (1955); it was the distributor for Ray's "Parash Pathar" (1958) and producer for "Jalsaghar" (1958). The company partially financed "Aparajito" (1956), the second instalment of Rays' "Apu Trilogy". Noted
Pather Panchali (novel) and published. It was translated to Sinhalese under the name "Mawathe Geethaya" (Sinhala) by Chintha Lakshmi Sinhaarachchi and published in 1986. This was immensely popular in Sri Lanka and was followed by the translations of the other two books of the Apu trilogy by the same translator. 'Pather Panchali' was translated into Malayalam under the name, 'Pather Panchali - Paathayuday Sangeetham' by Mr. M. K. N. Potty, which was first published in April 2009 by Green Books Pvt Ltd., Trichur, Kerala. An English translation by T.W. Clark and Tarapada Mukherji was published in 1968 by Indiana University Press as part