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starring: Smaran Ghosal, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Pinaki Sengupta, Santi Guptadirected by: Satyajit Ray
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304104279
Format: Black & White, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 6304104278
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: August 13, 1996
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 26423
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
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In this, the second film in the Apu trilogy, Harihar (Kanu Bannerjee) takes his wife, Sarbajaya (Karuna Bannerjee), and his son, Apu, to live in the bustling city of Benares after the tragic death of his daughter, Durga, and the destruction of the family's home. Harihar ekes out a living reading sacred texts by the shores of the Ganges River. When he falls ill, Sarbajaya must learn to cope on her own and leaves the city to work as a cook for a wealthy family living in the country.
Apu, by now an adolescent (played by Smaran Ghosal), is extremely bright and hungry for knowledge. Good fortune befalls him, and he is able to attend school, eventually going to Calcutta to attend the university. Sarbajaya is reluctant to let her son go, but she is unable to stop him. She waits patiently for his return, but at the same time is growing weak from illness. When Apu learns of his mother's illness, he must decide if he's going to sacrifice his final exams and return to her side or take the exams and risk the chance she might die before he gets there.
As compelling as its predecessor, Pather Panchali, this film was made only one year later, in 1956. Karuna Bannerjee is riveting in her portrayal of a woman who has lost everything of value to her but her beloved son. The film was based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhushan Banerjee, and the music was composed by Ravi Shankar. --Luanne Brown
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Rating:  - Good
The first film of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, was such a great film that, naturally, the second film in the series was bound to suffer a bit of a let down. Thus, Aparajito (The Unvanquished)- based on the novel Aparajita, by Bibhutibhushan Banerjee, is not the unadulterated great piece of art that Pather Panchali is. Like many middle films of a series, it suffers from the infamous middle filmitis; when films that are not first in a series rely too heavily upon an audience's memories ... Read More
Rating: - a wonderful film
I have the APU Trilogy on VHS along w/ "Devi" and another Ray film.
I won't add to the other reviews which are all positive for the films.
Being a rabid Beatle fan,I did find it sort of amusing to see the teen Apu as he first arrived in Calcutta look up to see the name "Harrison St."
on the wall of the building near where he arrived at. Hmmmm....,
I have seen these films many times and they are precious gems. The first film,Pather Panchali,reminds me alot of Ford's "The Grapes ... Read More
Rating: - The Story Continues
It's been a few years since I saw "Pather Panchali" and I still remember a number of scenes vividly; especially the death of Apu's sister (oops that isn't giving anything away is it?). It shouldn't because death is in the supporting cast for all of the trilogy of Apu movies and "Aparajito" is no exception. We find Apu and his parents in a more urban environment than when we left them in "Pather Panchali". Apu is studying to become a priest of sorts but he is still drawn to the academic world. Trajedy ... Read More
Rating: - brilliant film.....
This is the second installment in the "Apu Trilogy," by masterful Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
Apu (Pinaki Sengupta, as the young Apu and Smaran Ghosal, as the adolescent) has relocated with his mother (Karuna Bannerjee) and father (Kanu Bannerjee) to Banares. Apu's father is working as a medicine man there, and Apu is very ambitious to start school with the other young boys. This follows the life of this family, its joys, struggles and the choice Apu must make to either pursue the life of his ... Read More
Rating: - What makes a man?
This was the second entry of a famous Trilogy (Panther Pancahli was the first one and The world of Apu the last one). Satyajit Ray was essentially, a poet of the image, an untiring searcher of the total expression about cinema means. His notable traveling, his expressive close ups, the admirable sense of the contrasts, that confers him a superb status among the giants of the world cinema.
Aparajito is fundamentally, the story of a boy who becomes a man through a rigorous process of growing up. ... Read More
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