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...World of Apu. The third, last and most striking section in the trilogy of Indian life by Satyajit Ray brings its hero to marriage and deeper tragedy than either Pather Panchali or Aparajito, the first two parts, making it the moving culmination of a naturalistic film masterpiece...
...World of Apu. The third, last and most striking section in the trilogy of Indian life by Satyajit Ray brings its hero to marriage and deeper tragedy than either Father Panchali or Aparajito, the first two parts, making it the moving culmination of a naturalistic film masterpiece...
...World of Apu. Actually titled Apur Sansar, this is the third part of Indian Director-Producer Satyajit Ray's vital and abundant trilogy that began with Father Panchali and continued with Aparajito, now brings its hero to marriage and eventual confrontation with tragedy...
...Path), describes the hero's childhood in the innocence and violence of a village in Bengal. Part 2, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), tells how he lost his father and left his mother in order to make himself a modern man. Part 3, called Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), begins with a slyly humorous description of how the young man (Soumitra Chatterjee) spends his can't-afford-salad days of bohemian genius in Calcutta's slums. Suddenly one day a college friend carts him off to a country wedding that has an unexpected and fateful conclusion. The bridegroom...
...piece of craftsmanship, The World of Apu is the finest film of the three. Director Ray, who had never turned a camera before he started shooting Father Panchali, began his trilogy with incredible strokes of beginner's luck, but he ends it with deliberate mastery of the medium. He has superb control of his camera. His images are continuously beautiful but never obtrusive; they rise out of the story as naturally as thoughts rise out of the pool of Vishnu-there is nothing arty in Ray's art. By the same token his actors act, not with...