 Since it was made during Vietnam War , it is very probable that the rich bossy kid and the poor street kid are personifications of the United States of America and Vietnam respectively.After Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Satyajit Ray an honorary Academy Award in 1992 for Lifetime Achievement, Academy Film Archive, part of the Academy Foundation, which mainly works with objectives as "preservation, restoration, documentation, exhibition and study of motion pictures" took an initiative to restore and preserve Ray's films.Josef Lindner was appointed as a preservation officer and Academy could successfully restore 19 Ray titles so far.