Aparajito (1956)
Released | 1956-10-11 | Drama | 110m | 7.912/10
Subir Hajra (Assistant Director) | Shailen Dutta (Assistant Director) | Subrata Mitra (Director of Photography) | Arup Guhathakurta (Assistant Director) | Suren Chakraborty (Assistant Director) | Satyajit Ray (Producer) | Dulal Dutta (Editor) | Ravi Shankar (Original Music Composer) | Anil Choudhury (Production Manager) | Durgadas Mitra (Sound Designer) | Bansi Chandragupta (Art Direction) | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Novel) |
Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film, which won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion, not only extends but also spiritually deepens the tale of Apu. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.
Karuna Banerjee (Sarbojaya Ray) | Smaran Ghosal (Teenage Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray) | Pinaki Sengupta (Young Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray) | Kanu Bannerjee (Harihar Ray) | Santi Gupta (Ginnima) | Ramani Sengupta (Bhabataran) | Ranibala (Teliginni) | Sudipta Roy (Nirupama) | Ajay Mitra (Anil) | Charuprakash Ghosh (Nanda) | Subodh Ganguli (Headmaster) | Hemanta Chatterjee (Professor) | Kamala Adhikari (Mokshada) | Lalchand Banerjee (Lahiri) | Kali Bannerjee (Kathak) | Panchanan Bhattacharya () | Debabrata Chakraborty () | Harendrakumar Chakravarti (Doctor) | Meenakshi Devi (Pandey's wife) | Anil Mukherjee (Abinash) | Shibnarayan Nag () | Bhaganu Palwan (Palwan) | K.S. Pandey (Pandey) | Saraswati Pandey () | Kalicharan Roy (Akhil, press owner) | Keya Sengupta () | Mani Srimani (Inspector) | Udayshankar Tiwari () |