He reflects a society that does not place ambition above all, but is philosophical, accepting, optimistic. This summary scarcely reflects the beauty and mystery of the films, which do not follow the punched-up methods of conventional biography but are told in the spirit of the English title of the first film, "The Song of the Road." The actors who play Apu at various ages from about 6 to 29 have in common a moody, dreamy quality Apu is not sharp, hard or cynical, but a sincere, naive idealist, motivated more by vague yearnings than concrete plans. After a period of bitter drifting, he returns at last to take up the responsibility of his son. He is married under extraordinary circumstances, is happy with his young bride, then crushed by the deaths of his mother and his wife. The third film, "The World of Apu" (1959), finds Apu and his mother living with an uncle in the country the boy does so well in school he wins a scholarship to Calcutta. The second film, "Aparajito" (1956), follows the family to Benares, where the father makes a living from pilgrims who have come to bathe in the holy Ganges. Here begins the story of Apu when he is a boy, living with his parents, older sister and ancient aunt in the ancestral village to which his father, a priest, has returned despite the misgivings of the practical mother.
The trilogy begins with "Pather Panchali," filmed between 19. Even the music was by a novice, Ravi Shankar, later to be famous. The legend of the first film is inspiring how on the first day Ray had never directed a scene, his cameraman had never photographed one, his child actors had not even been tested for their roles-and how that early footage was so impressive it won the meager financing for the rest of the film.
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Ray (1921-1992) was a commercial artist in Calcutta with little money and no connections when he determined to adapt a famous serial novel about the birth and young manhood of Apu-born in a rural village, formed in the holy city of Benares, educated in Calcutta, then a wanderer.
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