![]() ![]() The movie is based on Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Pather Panchali is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language Drama film featuring Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta, Chunibala Devi, Tulsi Chakraborty and Suren Roy. This is a movie created solely with passion, and I am joining in the crusade to make this one of the top 250 on IMDb, though it should, by default, belong on the top 10 of anybody's list.Emotional delicate tumultuous compelling Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. A lot of that comes across - the locations, the actors - were all real, however this is a work of masterful collaboration between director, cinematographer, actors, sound recordist, and particularly the editors, a collaboration that is unparalleled in most modern, big budget films. A reason for this might be that Ray, a young director at the time who had already worked with Jean Renoir on his landmark film about India called 'the River', really didn't have a lot of money or power to wield around, and made this tight, intimate story on a shoestring with an amateur crew, without real concern for anything else but this story that he wanted to tell. This is probably why the film has not hit even the first 250 on the IMDb list, while it is more easily accessible than, say, most 'foreign' pictures, it still refuses at every turn to make a cliché out of itself or to be unfair to the audience or its characters by making its machinations obvious, a ploy that most filmgoers fall for time and time again. There is not a moment of hand-fed emotion, and that's probably what hits you first after the film is finished. This is in a very very small handful of films that create a kind of 'ecstatic truth' that Werner Herzog is always talking about. I won't go into detail about this film, because the greatest films ask that you really just sit back and enjoy them without questioning. ![]() Reviewed by Camoo 10 / 10 one of the most profound films ever made Even after Harihar returns, the family is left with few alternatives. Things get worse when Harihar disappears for five months and Durga falls ill. She scrapes by and sells her personal possessions to put food on the table and has to bear the taunts of her neighbors as Durga is always stealing fruit from their orchard. His mother Sarbojaya bears the brunt of the family's situation. His sister Durga and an old aunt also still lives with them. His parents are quite poor - his father Harihar, a writer and poet, gave away the family's fruit orchard to settle his brother's debts. The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. ![]()
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