Chetan Anand 's Neecha Nagar (1946), Ritwik Ghatak 's Nagarik (1952), and Bimal Roy 's Two Acres of Land (1953), laying the foundations for Indian neorealism and the "Indian New Wave". Pather Panchali (1955), the first part of the The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959) by Satyajit Ray , marked his entry in