Aparajito (1956)
Aparajito (1956)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Pinaki Sengupta
Apu (young)
Smaran Ghosal
Apu - adolescent
Kamala Adhikari
Mokshada
Rani Bala
Teliginni
Santi Gupta
Ginnima
Ramani Sengupta
Bhabataran
Lalchand Banerjee
Lahiri
Kali Bannerjee
Kathak
Ranibala
Teliginni
Sudipta Roy
Nirupama
Kanu Bannerjee
Harihar Ray
Ajay Mitra
Anil
Karuna Banerjee
Sarbojaya Ray
Panchanan Bhattacharya
Actor
Charuprakash Ghosh
Nanda
Debabrata Chakraborty
Actor
Subodh Ganguli
Headmaster
Satyajit Ray
Director
Hemanta Chatterjee
Professor
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Writer
Ravi Shankar
Composer
Harendrakumar Chakravarti
Doctor
Subrata Mitra
Cinematographer
Dulal Dutta
Editor
Meenakshi Devi
Pandey's wife
Bansi Chandragupta
ProductionDesigner
Anil Mukherjee
Abinash
Bhaganu Palwan
Palwan
K.S. Pandey
Pandey
Kalicharan Roy
Akhil, press owner
Mani Srimani
Inspector
Durgadas Mitra
Sound Designer
Anil Choudhury
Production Manager
Subir Hajra
Assistant Director
Suren Chakraborty
Assistant Director
Shailen Dutta
Assistant Director
Arup Guhathakurta
Assistant Director
Keya Sengupta
Udayshankar Tiwari
Saraswati Pandey
Shibnarayan Nag
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Details.
Release DateOctober 11, 1956
Original Nameঅপরাজিত
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 50m
Box Office$170,215
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Wiki.
Aparajito (Bengali: অপরাজিত Ôporajito; The Unvanquished) is a 1956 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy. It is adapted from the first half of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Aparajito. It starts off where the previous film Pather Panchali (1955) ended, with Apu's family moving to Varanasi, and chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college.
When Ray started making Pather Panchali, he had no plans of following it up with a sequel. The critical and commercial success of the film prompted him to start making Aparajito. Unlike his previous venture, where he stayed faithful to the novel, Ray took some bold artistic decisions here, such as portraying the relationship between Apu and his mother in a very different manner from the book. As a result, in contrast to its predecessor, the film was not received well locally; Ray recalled that "as for the suburban audience, it was shocked by the portrayal of the mother and son relationship, so sharply at variance with the conventional notion of mutual sweetness and devotion".Critical reception outside of India, however, was overwhelmingly positive. It won 11 international awards, including the Golden Lion and Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, becoming the first ever film to win both. Veteran film-maker Mrinal Sen said he considers it to be one of the best Indian movies he had ever seen. Bosley Crowther said that "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". The critical acclaim this movie received encouraged Ray to make another sequel, Apur Sansar (1959), which was equally well received, and thus concluded one of the most critically acclaimed movie trilogies of all time, as Roger Ebert later pointed out: "The three films ... swept the top prizes at Cannes, Venice and London, and created a new cinema for India – whose prolific film industry had traditionally stayed within the narrow confines of swashbuckling musical romances. Never before had one man had such a decisive impact on the films of his culture".