Parash Pathar

Parash Pathar (Bengali: পরশ পাথরPorosh Pathor; English: The Philosopher's Stone; French: La Pierre Philosophale) is a 1958 Indian Bengali languagefantasycomedy film. It was Satyajit Ray's first film outside of The Apu Trilogy. It was also his first comedy and first magical realist film. Adapted from a short story of the same name by Parasuram (Rajsekhar Basu), the film offered an early glimpse of Ray's sense of humour, centered on a middle-class clerk who accidentally discovers a stone that can turn other objects into gold.