The World of Apu (1959)
Overview
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $134,241.00 |
| Original Language | bn |
| Popularity | 8.147 |
Directed By
Satyajit Ray
Crew
Subrata Mitra
Dulal Dutta
Durgadas Mitra
Ravi Shankar
Satyajit Ray
Bansi Chandragupta
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
Subodh Das
Anil Choudhury
Nityananda Datta
Prabhas Bhattacharya
Shailen Dutta
Sakti Sen
Chhedilal Sharma
Krishna Das
Amiya Sanyal
Bansi Chandragupta
Aminyanath Mukherji
Tapeshwar Prasad
Bhabaranjan Roy
Anil Pal
TOP CAST
Soumitra Chatterjee
Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray
Sharmila Tagore
Aparna Ray
Alok Chakravarty
Kajal Ray
Swapan Mukherjee
Pulu
Dhiresh Majumdar
Shashinarayan
Sefalika Devi
Shashinarayan's wife
Dhiren Ghosh
Landlord
Shanti Bhattacherjee
Office Associate
Abhijit Chatterjee
Aparna's Brother
Belarani Devi
Apu's Neighbor
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