Ever since Chetan Anand 's '' Neecha Nagar '' won the Grand Prize at the inaugural Cannes Film Festival in 1946 , Indian parallel cinema films frequently appeared in international fora and film festivals for the next several decades . This allowed Indian independent filmmakers to reach a global audience . The most influential among them was Satyajit Ray , whose films became successful among European , American and Asian audiences . His work subsequently had a worldwide impact , with filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese , James Ivory , Abbas Kiarostami , Elia Kazan , François Truffaut , Carlos Saura , Isao Takahata and Wes Anderson being influenced by his cinematic style , and many others such as Akira Kurosawa praising his work . The " youthful coming-of-age dramas that have flooded art houses since the mid-fifties owe a tremendous debt to the Apu trilogy " ( 1955 – 1959 ) . Ray 's film '' Kanchenjungha '' ( 1962 ) introduced a narrative structure that resembles later hyperlink cinema . Ray 's 1967 script for a film to be called '' The Alien '' , which was eventually cancelled , is widely believed to have been the inspiration for Steven Spielberg 's '' ET '' ( 1982 ) . Ira Sachs ' '' Forty Shades of Blue '' ( 2005 ) was a loose remake of '' Charulata '' , and in Gregory Nava 's '' My Family '' ( 1995 ) , the final scene is duplicated from the final scene of '' The World of Apu '' ( 1959 ) . Similar references to Ray films are found in recent works such as '' Sacred Evil '' ( 2006 ) , the '' Elements trilogy '' of Deepa Mehta , and in films of Jean-Luc Godard
inaugural Cannes Film Festival
1946 Cannes Film Festival
Parallel cinema