The culmination of Ray’s trilogy elevates the struggles of Apu’s existence to an epic, at times fairytale plane, without exaggeration or fantasy. Barely employed and behind in rent in Calcutta, Apu nevertheless has grown into a young man with a resilience and a joy that nothing seems capable of diminishing. A bizarre, almost comic, turn of events brings Apu and Aparna together quickly, changing both of their lives intensely—not to mention the impact it had on cinema. The film marks the debut of two charming stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, who would appear in the most Satyajit Ray films of any actor, and Sharmila Tagore, who seems well beyond her thirteen years as Apu’s arranged bride. Now living right next to the screeching train that runs through the trilogy, they embark on an unpredictable path together in a story told with tender, aching believability. Both Ray and Chatterjee saw themselves in the adult Apu, whose sensitive, artistic nature the director heightened from the novel’s original character. By this installment, Ray, like Apu, had acquired a greater ease and confidence that is apparent in every single frame and cut—ultimately revealing the extraordinary worlds contained just within the ordinary one.

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