shares tathagata who lets his filmworks do the talkingwhen asked about the five scenes from this ray classic still etched in his heart tathagata explains for me parash pathorthe philosophers stone stands on the shoulder of the unbelievable tulsi chakraborty who peaked in one of my favourite scenes of all times in the film it is when he touched a simple metal swastika symbol with the stone and it turned to gold irony much again with the swastika sign maybe not accidental at all given what and who it represented at one point in history that scene alone showed what control over oneself looked like for an actor as tulsi babu went through a myriad of expressions in that one damn shot the party scene is also a favourite as it kind of holds a mirror to todays manipulative society and how everything boils down to personal interests for all of us without bothering much about the person in front the final payoff scene ranks as one of rays bests as well but i would like to mention another scene in the film which i love it is not exactly a scene but a sequence the entire opening sequence actually which builds the world of the protagonist paresh through immaculate details and using the mundane ray transports us into the lives of a certain section of people in the society who still have parallels in todays world hard to believe that ray made this as a minor film between the break of filming jalsaghar the music room the pathos and the use of black comedy in this film are still yet to have a match in cinema across the world