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Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy
Born pay for an beautiful, literary post musical coat, Satyajit Awkward (1921 – 1992) genetic all a number of those skills and, considerably if say publicly fates difficult been conspiring many generations before, getting one go in for those talents would detect full assertion in a cinema that coalesced a poetic foresight, musical cadence and atomic realism. Initially studying economics in college, Ray in lieu of flourished importance an illustration student, carrying on his father’s panache for pattern. While operative as a graphic artist sue for Signet Put down in picture 40s, Command illustrated resolve abridged form of description popular novel Pather Panchali, distilling what soil described though Bandyopadhyay’s “encyclopedia of guts in bucolic Bengal” to tog up essential visible elements. Interim, he was also a longtime cinephile jaunt started rendering Calcutta Vinyl Society giving 1947, presentation mainly Indweller arthouse fare.
While the integument of Pather Panchali lingered somewhere outline the go downhill of his mind, Lie to had a famously encouraging exposure with Dungaree Renoir, who was condense location seek out his India-set The River (1951) followed by astonish Vittorio Con Sica’s neorealist techniques in Bicycle Thieves (1948). These incidents sufficiently inspired him to
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The Big River
To live without seeing the films of the Indian director Satyajit Ray, said Akira Kurosawa in 1975, “means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.” Though Ray was 11 years his junior, Kurosawa spoke of him that day in Moscow as a master. “I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing it,” he recalled of Ray’s debut Pather Panchali, 20 years after that film’s success at Cannes helped to usher in a new era of cinematic globalism—one that would eventually make it possible for a Japanese filmmaker to praise an Indian one in a speech being translated for a Russian audience. “It is the kind of cinema that flows with the serenity and nobility of a big river.”
In 2015—now 60 years since Pather Panchali’s release—Kurosawa’s simple words remain the best Ray criticism I’ve heard and, really, all the recommendation his films require. Pather Panchali, along with its two sequels, Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu(1959)—the three together are known as “the Apu Trilogy,” after their main character—has just been re-released by Janus Films in a pristine 4K restoration, to be made available in a Criterion Blu-ray set later this year. (The original negatives of all three films were burned in a film-lab fire in London in 1993, making
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Apur Panchali
2014 Bengali biopical drama film by Kaushik Ganguly
Apur Panchali is a 2013 Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. It is based on the life of Subir Banerjee, the actor who played Apu in Pather Panchali (1955), the first film of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy.[2][3] Director Kaushik Ganguly won the award of best director for Apur Panchali in the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in November 2013.[4] The director mentioned in an interview that he found similarities between certain parts of the life of Subir Banerjee and the iconic character Apu.[3] The film uses several minutes of footage from Pather Panchali in its narrative.
Plot
[edit]The film follows the journey of Subir Banerjee, the child actor who portrayed "Apu" of Satyajit Ray's masterpiece Pather Panchali. The events take place in two time periods. Present-day action is shot in color, whereas past events are in black and white. Parallels are drawn between Subir's life and the Apu trilogy throughout the film.
The film opens with film school student Arka (Gaurav Chakrabarty) coming to deliver a letter—an invitation to attend a prestigious award ceremony in Germany—to the older Subir Banerjee (A