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Gangacharan (Soumitra Chatterji) is a Brahmin and pundit, part doctor, part spiritual adviser to the villagers from whom he holds himself gently aloof. Merchants at first spare him a littie rice as an act of deference. But soon, Gangacharan becomes like everyone else, hungry and helpless to do much about it. "There is no rice," a merchant swears to him. "I would not lie to a Brahmin." He would, of course, and does; the villagers all suspect it. There are food riots. Ananga (Babita), Gangacharan's wife, lowers herself to work grinding rice while some still remains. When that...
...longer piece is a poignant comedy called The Conclusion. Amulya (Soumitra Chatterjee), a young student decked out in all the trappings of intellectual dandyism-city shirt and coat, Argyle socks, polished shoes-comes home from college and marries trouble wrapped in a sari: an underprivileged tomboy, nicknamed Puglee, with a laughing face and eyes like a temple deity. Amulya's mother is horrified, and Puglee, still a child, is rebellious...
...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 proves to be insane, and in order to save the bride...
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