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Aparajito
The movie follows Apu who is permitted a formal education over the gentle objections of his mother, who'd wanted him to be priest. Following his father's death, Apu leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
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20 November 1921, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
25 December 1919, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
August 07, 2012
Humanist film-making at its best.
August 28, 2006
A thoughtful, colorful, and poetic story of life in India.
October 24, 2007
It's a masterpiece for which terms like 'simplicity' and 'profundity' seem inadequate.
January 01, 2000
There's pleasure in witnessing Apu's thrill of knowledge, but sadness when his ambitions create an inevitable break with his mother.
October 24, 2007
It doesn't have quite the tension or quite the variety of mood but it has a special brooding quality and a more explicit conflict between East and West.
January 20, 2015
...eloquently dramatizes oppositions: tradition versus invention; religion versus science; adolescence versus adulthood.
March 25, 2006
It is done with such rare feeling and skill at pictorial imagery, and with such sympathetic understanding of Indian character on the part of Mr. Ray, that it develops a sort of hypnotism for the serene and tolerant viewer.
August 05, 2011
The second panel in Ray's masterpiece, Thr Apu Trilogy, is less dramatic than the first or last, but it's just as insightful and emotionally touching.
October 24, 2007
Ray's relaxed, open style had a tremendous influence on the film world of 1956, but time has absorbed some of its originality.
February 27, 2005
each tightly constructed story flows naturally like the Ganges River without artificial contrivances
