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24: ‘The entire conventional approach’ Quoted in Seton: 165

25: ‘Zavattini’s greatest assets’ Ray, Our Films Th eir Films:
126–27
25: ‘the most enchanting, the most impudent and the most
sublime’ Ray, Music I Live By, All India Radio, 1966 (radio
talk)
26: ‘Venice is a fantastic place’ Letter to Bansi Chandragupta,
exact date unknown, quoted in Seton: 119

Chapter 2 Apu in Fiction and Film: Adapting the
Novels Pather Panchali and Aparajito
28: ‘one of the few completely satisfying Bengali novels’
Buddhadeva Bose, An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of
Modern Bengali Literature, Calcutta: Orient Longmans,
1948: 88
28: ‘The boy-hero Apu grows up’ Ibid.: 89

30: ‘In his novels he showed’ Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Th e Hand,
Great Anarch!: India 1921–1952, London: Chatto & Windus ,
1987: 90
30: ‘I saw often that he could be’ Ibid.: 95

31: ‘The script had to retain’ Ray, Our Films Th eir Films: 33
33: ‘Durga was a big girl now’ Banerji, Pather Panchali: 156–57

33: ‘You had to find out for yourself’ Ray, ‘My life, my work’, pt 4
37: ‘had some echoes’ Interview with Andrew Robinson

37: ‘daring and profound revelation’ Ray, ‘Thoughts on fi lm-
making’, unfinished article in shooting notebook for

Aparajito written after the film’s Calcutta release in 1956
37: ‘For some time after Sarbajaya’s death’ Quoted in Eksan,
Calcutta, autumn 1984: 330

37: ‘of improvisations on that’ Ray, ‘Thoughts on fi lm-making’,

unfinished article in shooting notebook for Aparajito written
after the film’s Calcutta release in 1956

38: ‘very touched by the fact’ Interview with Andrew Robinson
38: ‘Lila was his childhood companion’ Banerji, Aparajito: 226

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