Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- Bangla
- Country
- India
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Bangla — subtitles on.
The story
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.
- dying and death
- broken engagement
- arranged marriage
- black and white
- calcutta
- novelist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Soumitra Chatterjee
Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray
Sharmila Tagore
Aparna Ray
Alok Chakravarty
Kajal Ray
Swapan Mukherjee
Pulu
- Sefalika Devi — Shashinarayan's Wife
- Belarani Devi — Apu's Neighbor
- Asha Devi
- Dhiresh Majumdar — Shashinarayan
- Dhiren Ghosh — Landlord
- Shanti Bhattacherjee — Office Associate
- Panchanan Bhattacharya
- Bechu Singha
- Abhijit Chatterjee — Aparna's Brother
- Tushar Bandyopadhyay
- Jiten Bhons
- Directed
- Satyajit Ray
- Written
- Satyajit Ray
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 285 ratings
- Studio
- Satyajit Ray Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1955Pather Panchali
Where it starts.
Aparajito
1956
The World of Apu
1959 · You’re here
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.
