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Apur Sansar (Bengali: অপুর সংসার), also known as The World of Apu, is a 1959 Indian Bengali-language drama film produced, written, and directed by Satyajit Ray. It is based on the second half of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay 's novel Aparajito .
After Apur Sansar was harshly criticised by a Bengali critic, Ray wrote an article defending it—a rare event in Ray's filmmaking career (the other major instance involved the film Charulata, Ray's personal favourite). [14] His success had little influence on his personal life in the years to come.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Abak Prithibi: Bishu Chakraborty: Uttam Kumar, Tarun Kumar, Tulsi Chakraborty: Drama: Apur Sansar: Satyajit Ray: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore ...
Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito, and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959) together constitute The Apu Trilogy. Pather Panchali portrays the childhood of Apu in his family's ancestral house. Apur Sansar depicts Apu's adult life, his reaction to his wife's premature death, and his final bonding with his son whom he abandoned as an infant.
Starting with his debut film, Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959), the third part of The Apu Trilogy, as adult Apu, he went on to work in several films with Ray, including Abhijan (The Expedition, 1962), Charulata (1964), Kapurush (1965), Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969), Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder, 1973), Sonar ...
Sharmila Tagore with Soumitra Chatterjee at Apur Sansar presentation in 2009. Tagore began her career as an actress in Satyajit Ray's Bengali epic drama Apur Sansar (1959), as an ill-fated bride. [18] In 1960, Ray cast her again in Devi, a film set in 1860 on Hindu orthodoxy and rational reforms, which she considers her favourite film and ...
Pather Panchali was followed by two films that continued the tale of Apu's life—Aparajito (The Unvanquished) in 1956 and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) in 1959. Together, the three films constitute the Apu trilogy. Aparajito portrays the adolescent Apu, his education in a rural school and a Calcutta college. Its central theme is the poignant ...
Gregory Nava's 1995 film My Family had a final scene that was reminiscent of Apur Sansar. Ira Sachs's 2005 work Forty Shades of Blue was a loose remake of Charulata. Other references to Ray's films are found, for example, in 2006's Sacred Evil, [169] and the Elements trilogy by Deepa Mehta. [170]