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''Apur Panchali'' is a 2013 Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. It is based on the life of Subir Banerjee, the actor who played Apu in ''Pather Panchali'' (1955), the first film of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy. Director Kaushik Ganguly won the award of best director for ''Apur Panchali'' in the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in November 2013. The director mentioned in an interview that he found similarities between certain parts of the life of Subir Banerjee and the iconic character Apu.〔 The film uses several minutes of footage from ''Pather Panchali'' in its narrative. ==Plot== The film follows the journey of Subir Banerjee the child actor who portrayed "apu" of Satyajit Ray's masterpiece ''Pather Panchali''. The events take place in two time periods. while the present day events are shot in color the past events are in black and white. Comparison is drawn between Subir's life and the Apu trilogy throughout the film. The film opens with a film school student Arka(Gaurav Chakrabarty) who comes to deliver a letter, an invite to attend a prestigious award ceremony in Germany to an Older Subir banerjee (Ardhendu Bannerjee). Now Retired,lost in the crowd Subir initially doesn't want to receive the letter but he eventually agrees after Arka convinces him. Subir recounts his days working for pather panchali to Arka. They also visit an old broken house where the film was shot. Arka collects a brick from the house as souvenir. Later as they prepare for their journey to Germany Subir narrates his life story to Arka. After Subir's brother went away to work in Dhanbad Subir now in his 20's had to give up his football career to take care of his ill father and help his mother in her household chores. On advice of his friend Subir gets married to Ashima(parno Mittra) daughter of a wealthy villager in Burdwan after his father passes away. Two years into their marriage Ashima gets pregnant. In Present day Subir and Arka open up to each other. Arka talks about his late father whom he deeply admired. Subir reveals that due to Jaundice Ashima gave premature birth and the baby died soon after. Ashima went into depression and also died. Subir is heart-broken and isolates himself. As Arka and Subir board the plane to Germany Arko thanks Subir for this was his first business class trip to which Subir says he ought to thank "Apu" since it is his first time on a plane. Subir on request of his mother comes to return all of Ashima's belonging in her native house. Her grandmother asks him to bathe in the local pond and stay for lunch. Subir goes to the pond and as he prepares for bathe a young boy asks him if his name is apu to which subir weepingly nods. As the credit rolls it is shown that Subir Banerjee was felicitated in International preis fur film-und medianmusik, Germany. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apur Panchali」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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