Apur Sansar

1959 [BANGLA]

Action / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 97% · 29 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 95% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.4/10 10 20657 20.7K

dying and death broken engagement arranged marriage black and white calcutta novelist

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Plot summary

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.

Director

Satyajit Ray Photo
Satyajit Ray

Top cast

Sharmila Tagore Photo
Sharmila Tagore as Aparna
Soumitra Chatterjee Photo
Soumitra Chatterjee as Apurba Roy
Sefalika Devi Photo
Sefalika Devi as Shashinarayan's wife
Asha Devi Photo
Asha Devi as
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975.79 MB
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Bangla 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
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1.77 GB
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Bangla 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 26

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

By this third instalment of the adventures of

By this third instalment of the adventures of “Apu” (now Soumitra Chatterjee), I was already quite fond of him. He has to shake off the last vestiges of his student years and find himself a job. Even with a teaching qualification this aspiring novelist finds that’s easier said than done but he gets by, delaying settling his seven rupee a month rent for as long as he can, and living cheaply. Then his friend “Pulu” (Swapan Mukherjee) introduces him to his sister “Aparna” (Sharmila Tagore) and the direction of his life takes quite an heartfelt change in direction. Before long they are married, she has become pregnant and has left to spend the tail end of her pregnancy with her wealthier parents. Before he has a chance to join them, a tragedy ensues that affects the young man profoundly. Unable to face his grief he takes to the road on a pilgrimage of sorts, only a directionless and purposeless one. A chance encounter with “Pulu" a few years later reminds him of his obligations to his young son “Kajal” (Alok Chakravarty) who has been brought up by his grandfather, but can “Apu” bear to see the child that robbed him of his true love? Moreover, even if he should decide to make contact, who’s to say the youngster will want to engage with a total stranger? Whatever you do, don’t watch the colourised version of this. Seen in monochrome, it offers us beautifully crafted and characterful drama that lavishes it’s humanity on us. Chatterjee juggles his roles as lovestruck young man becoming grief-stricken wanderer perfectly, without melodrama or sentimentality and the courting scenes with Tagore are really quite delightful to observe, as is his reading of her lovingly threatening letter. The location photography captures the poverty in which most people live as well as the beauty of their surroundings well, and then the camera turns effortlessly in onto the characters as his travels expose this vulnerable young man before our eyes. As with many of Ray’s films, it keeps the story tight and it also clearly extols the virtues of education and of appreciating self-worth - without “Apu” becoming in any way self-obsessed. I was actually quite sad as we reached the end. Not because anything unpleasant happens, but because I felt that I’d like to have known what happened next for “Apu”.
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Reviewed by avik-kumar-si 8 / 10

A Flourishing Finale

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) is the concluding part of master Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray's '"Apu Trilogy".

The Indian word "sansar" may mean both world and family. Both meanings are relevant in the context of the film, as it traces Apu's blooming into a human being, his explorations on the way as well as the phase of his life where he gains a family, again, having already lost everyone in the family he was born into. Loss is a theme which refuses to desert Apu's life but our unvanquished hero lives and grows through, and despite, his recurring losses.

Soumitra Chatterjee, later to become one of Ray's favourites, plays the adult Apu in one of his most memorable performances. Satyajit Ray is considered one of India's best ever filmmaker, if not the very best – and this film is a testimony why. Apur Sansar features several immortal scenes, each of which etches itself in the viewer's mind and any of which could serve as the North Star for a budding director as something to match and inspire. Apu's monologue with his friend Pulu as the sole audience, Aparna's (Apu's wife) discovery of her husband's abode and the final sequence deserve special mention.

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