Satyajit Ray's three films following one Bengali boy from a village to Calcutta.
Apu marries a stranger when her groom fails to arrive, and the trilogy closes on his son.
Apu leaves the village for school in Benares and then Calcutta, while his mother waits.
A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.
Satyajit Ray's first film: a boy and his sister in a Bengal village, and a train through the kash field.
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