Tag Archives: Apu Trilogy

Manas Mukul Pal's debut feature Sahaj Pather Gappo released in September 2017 is quite different from the popular or even the parallel trends in Bengali cinema. It is refreshingly different in spite of its weaknesses. Silhouette editor Amitava Nag writes a critique (but not a review) drawing parallels with a Tamil film Kaaka Muttai which...

An Unfilmed Visual Script: Satyajit Ray’s Ravi Shankar is a very different and special book. It embeds within itself, a 32 page drawing book containing more than a 100 sketches by Satyajit Ray of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar playing the sitar on a stage. The drawings capture the mood of the musical flow through form (shape) and suggested movement....

As the years passed, I began to feel that the main character in several of the following movies of Satyajit Ray could be seen as a figure of Apu proceeding on his journey of discovery in the world and establishing new relationships with others. He became also a sort of model for many of us to imitate until one could see him in Manomahan Mitra (The Lovely...