THE APU TRILOGY

 

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu/Bengali)

(107 min; 1959; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)

With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty

 

Recipient of the Sutherland Trophy, British Film Institute Awards, 1959; National Film Award for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, 1959; and NBR Awards for Best Foreign Film & Top Foreign Films, National Board of Reviews, USA 1960

 

Based on the last two-thirds of the 1932 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, the trials and tribulations in Apu’s adult world