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 attention. For "Pather Panchali", remarkable as it may be, is something of a chore to sit through." Early in the 1980s, Ray was criticised by Nargis Dutt, parliamentarian and former actress, for "exporting poverty". Darius Cooper writes that while many critics celebrated the Apu trilogy "as a eulogy of third-world culture, others criticized it for what they took to be its romanticization of such a culture". As of October 2017, the film has a 98% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on an aggregate of 42 reviews with an average score of 9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A film