Satyajit Ray's birth centenary celebration
Apur Sansar
Watching Apu’s life unfold is like gazing through a window into a rare and unique world.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast includes: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore
106 Mins/ 1959 / India, Subtitles
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By the time Apur Sansar was released, Satyajit Ray was well on his way to becoming a legend. This extraordinary final chapter brings our protagonist’s journey full circle. Apu is now in his early twenties, out of college, and hoping to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film charts his romantic awakening, which occurs as the result of a most unlikely turn of events, and his eventual, fraught fatherhood.
Featuring soon to be Ray regulars Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in star-making performances, and demonstrating Ray’s ever more impressive skills as a crafter of pure cinematic imagery, Apur Sansar is a moving conclusion to this monumental trilogy.
The two other films in the trilogy are screening earlier in the season:
- Pather Panchali - Sunday 5 September
- Aparajito - Sunday 12 September
You can still enjoy the films as standalone pieces, without having seen the earlier films in the trilogy.
You may also be interested in Satyajit Ray's next feature, from 1963: Mahanagar (The Big City), which screens on Sunday 3 October.
Follow the triumphs and frustrations of Arat, living the life of a modern Indian woman in contemporary '60s Kolkata.
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