Article: Penning Down `Apu' // Unplanned Marriage Rewrites Life of Ray's Hero

THE WORLD OF APU (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) Apu Soumitra Chatterjee Aparna Sarmila Tagore Pulu Sapan Mukherjee Written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Based on novel by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee. Music by Ravi Shankar. Running time: 106 minutes. In Bengali with English subtitles. No MPAA rating (nothing objectionable). Opening today at the Music Box. Movies about novelists - like novels about moviemakers - open a window on the creative process. They also stage contests between their respective storytelling tools - the screen versus the page.

Apu aspires to write a novel, but in "The World of Apu" he abandons his writing quest under life's burden. Director Satyajit Ray visualizes this turning ...

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