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Showing posts with label Satyajit Ray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satyajit Ray. Show all posts

Apur Sansar aka The World of Apu (India , 1959)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.0
Release Year -1959
Country - India
Genres – Drama

Synopsis – Third and final part of "The Apu Trilogy"

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. This changes his life, for when the bridegroom turns out to be mad, Apu's friend asks him to become the husband! After initial revulsion at the idea, Apu agrees. Apu takes his exquisite bride, Aparna, back to Calcutta. But Aparna dies in childbirth, Apu leaves Calcutta, crazy with grief, and his son Kajal is left abandoned with his wife's parents. Only after a long period of total indifference to worldly responsibilities, does Apu become capable of returning to the world.

Awards & Lists - Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins






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Aparajito aka The Unvanquished (India , 1956)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.0
Release Year -1956
Country - India (Bengali)
Genres – Drama

Synopsis – Second part of "The Apu Trilogy"

After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Apu enters a local school, where he does well. By the time he graduates, he has a scholarship to study at a college in Calcutta. So off he goes. His mother is torn by his leaving, and by his growing independence. She loves her son very much and wants him to succeed, but she does not want to be left alone.

Awards & Lists - Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 wins


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Pather Panchali aka Song of the Little Road (India , 1955)


Ratings - IMDB – 8.1
Release Year -1955
Country - India (Bengali)
Genres – Drama

Synopsis – First part of "The Apu Trilogy"

Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal. The father, a poet and priest, cannot earn enough to keep his family going. Apu's sister, Durga, is forever stealing guavas from the neighbour's orchards. All these add to the daily struggles of the mother's life, notwithstanding her constant bickering with old aunt who lives with the family.

Awards - Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 7 wins



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