Pather Panchali and Aparajito by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Produced by
Satyajit Ray
Starring
Subir Banerjee
Pinaki Sen Gupta
Soumitra Chatterjee
Cinematography
Subrata Mitra
Edited by
Dulal Dutta
Music by
Ravi Shankar
Production companies
(Pather Panchali) : Government of West Bengal (Aparajito) and (Apur Sansar) : Epic Films / Satyajit Ray Productions
Distributed by
Sony Pictures Classics / Merchant Ivory Productions (Pather Pachali was distributed by The Aurora Film Corporation)
Release dates
Pather Panchali:
26 August 1955 (1955-08-26)
Aparajito:
11 October 1956 (1956-10-11)
Apur Sansar:
1 May 1959 (1959-05-01)
Running time
342 minutes (total)
Country
India
Language
Bengali
The Apu Trilogy comprises three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959). The original music for the films was composed by Ravi Shankar.
The films are based on two Bengali novels written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay: Pather Panchali (1929) and Aparajito (1932). The three films went on to win many national and international awards, including three National Film Awards and seven awards from the Cannes, Berlin and Venice Film Festivals. The films were produced on a shoestring budget[1] (Pather Panchali had a budget of roughly ₹ 150,000[2] ($45,300[3]—equivalent to $515,200 in 2023) using an amateur cast and crew.[4]
^Robinson 2003, p. 77
^Pradip Biswas (16 September 2005). "50 Years of Pather Panchali". Screen. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
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