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Article: Penning Down `Apu' // Unplanned Marriage Rewrites Life of Ray's Hero
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- September 8, 1995
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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 ...