Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Language
- Bangla
- Country
- India
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Bangla — subtitles on.
The story
Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.
- scholarship
- based on novel or book
- loss of loved one
- varanasi
- pneumonia
- sequel
- coming of age
- black and white
- india
- calcutta
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Keya Sengupta
- Kamala Adhikari — Mokshada
- Saraswati Pandey
- Kanu Bannerjee — Harihar Ray
- Smaran Ghosal — Teenage Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray
- Pinaki Sengupta — Young Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray
- Ramani Ranjan Sengupta — Bhabataran
- Ajay Mitra — Anil
- Charuprakash Ghosh — Nanda
- Subodh Ganguli — Headmaster
- Kali Bannerjee — Kathak
- Directed
- Satyajit Ray
- Written
- Satyajit Ray
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 295 ratings
- Studio
- Epic Productions, Satyajit Ray Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1955Pather Panchali
Where it starts.
Aparajito
1956 · You’re here
The World of Apu
1959
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
