Chunibala Devi, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
A boy named Apu is born to a poor Brahmin family living in its ancestral village in Bengal, India in 1920. The father, Harihar, a poet and lay priest, earns so little money that the family can barely ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003
Stats: 268 reviews
it's hard to believe satyajit ray and his cinematographer had never worked on a film before this. they had observed renoir filming the river and with his encouragement and the inspiration of italian neorealism made this poetic masterpiece about life in a small bengal village cir...( read more)
Though not quite as great as I expected, it definitely demonstrate Ray's directorial abilities. I admire the way the film imbues ordinary moments with lyrical quality. I found it occasionally melodramatic, plus the wife's treatment of the aunt really bothered me.
A masterful departure from stereotypical Indian cinema. Beautiful nature shots.
The film that introduced Western audiences to Indian cinema. Ray was heavily influenced by Italian neo-realism and of course Renoir. You might call this Indian neo-realism. Forget Bollywood, this is as real as cinema gets. The story of a young boy and his troubled family is incre...( read more)
A true classic of different genre, you won't have the problem to understand the turmoil of human life even when u don't know the labguage. watch it and you will understand.
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