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186 The Apu Trilogy

1956
APARAJITO (THE UNVANQUISHED)

Producer: Epic Films. Screenplay from the novel Aparajito by
Bibhutibhusan Banerji: Satyajit Ray. Photography: Subrata
Mitra. Editor: Dulal Dutta. Art director: Bansi Chandragupta.
Music: Ravi Shankar. Sound: Durgadas Mitra. Running time:
113 minutes.
Cast: Kanu Banerji (Harihar), Karuna Banerji (Sarbajaya),
Pinaki Sen Gupta (Boy Apu), Smaran Ghosal (Adolescent Apu),
Santi Gupta (Lahiri’s wife), Ramani Sen Gupta (Bhabataran),
Ranibala (Teli), Sudipta Roy (Nirupama), Ajay Mitra (Anil),
Charuprakash Ghosh (Nanda), Subodh Ganguli (Headmaster),
Moni Srimani (Schools inspector), Hemanta Chatterji (Professor),
Kali Banerji (Kathak), Kalicharan Roy (Akhil, press proprietor),
Kamala Adhikari (Moksada), Lalchand Banerji (Lahiri), K. S.
Pande (Pande), Meenaksi Devi (Pande’s wife), Anil Mukherji
(Abinash), Harendrakumar Chakravarti (Doctor), Bhaganu
Palwan (Palwan).

1959
APUR SANSAR (THE WORLD OF APU)
Producer: Satyajit Ray Productions. Screenplay from the novel
Aparajito by Bibhutibhusan Banerji: Satyajit Ray. Photography:
Subrata Mitra. Editor: Dulal Dutta. Art director: Bansi
Chandragupta. Music: Ravi Shankar. Sound: Durgadas Mitra.
Running time: 106 minutes.
Cast: Soumitra Chatterji (Apu), Sharmila Tagore (Aparna),
Alok Chakravarti (Kajal), Swapan Mukherji (Pulu), Dhiresh
Majumdar (Sasinarayan, Pulu’s uncle), Sefalika Devi (Sasinarayan’s
wife), Tusar Banerji (Bridegroom), Dhiren Ghosh (Landlord),
Abhijit Chatterji (Murari).

By far the best DVD edition of the Apu Trilogy is the three-disc
version that was released by Artificial Eye in 2003. The picture

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