 In 1962 , Ray directed Kanchenjungha . Based on his first original screenplay , it was his first film in colour . The film tells of an upper @-@ class family spending an afternoon in Darjeeling , a picturesque hill town in West Bengal . They try to arrange the engagement of their youngest daughter to a highly paid engineer educated in London . He had first conceived shooting the film in a large mansion , but later decided to film it in the famous hill town . He used the many shades of light and mist to reflect the tension in the drama . Ray noted that while his script allowed shooting to be possible under any lighting conditions , a commercial film contingent present at the same time in Darjeeling failed to shoot a single scene , as they only wanted to do so in sunshine . 
