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3 | ''Pather Panchali'' (''"Song of the Road"'') is a Bengali ComingOfAgeStory by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, originally published in India in 1929, during the time of UsefulNotes/TheRaj. The author's first novel, it depicts the life of the impoverished Roy family in rural Bengal, seen through the eyes of youngest child Apu. |
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5 | In the 1950s, it along with its sequel ''Film/{{Aparajito}}'' became the basis for Creator/SatyajitRay's critically acclaimed trio of films known as The Apu Trilogy. The film version of ''Aparajito'' covers Apu's adolescence and education, while series finale ''Film/ApurSansar'' follows Apu as a young adult. |
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8 | !!This novel contains examples of: |
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10 | * ComingOfAgeStory: The overarching theme is Apu's education and growing up. |
11 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: The Roy family are Brahmins, members of the highest caste in Hinduism, yet they live in poverty. |
12 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: |
13 | ** Tomboy Durga and her shy, sensitive little brother Apu. |
14 | ** Practical, down-to-earth Sarbajaya and her poetic, daydreaming husband Harihar who dreams of becoming a writer. |
15 | * ParentalFavoritism: Harihar and Sarbajaya make no secret of their disappointment that Durga was born a girl. |
16 | * WhatBeautifulEyes: Many comments are made about Apu's large, expressive eyes. |
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19 | !!The film adaption contains examples of: |
20 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Apu to Durga. She's not happy when Apu messes with her prized paper collection. |
21 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Harihar's trip to the city was a financial success, but he returns to find Durga dead and Sarbajaya despondent. The family ultimately moves to Benares, abandoning their ancestral home.]] |
22 | * BladeOfGrassCut: A rather long sequence showing a lily pond with water bugs and dragonflies flitting about. |
23 | * BrattyHalfPint: Durga and Apu, at least in the eyes of the village. |
24 | * ChekhovsGun: The Roys' neighbors accuse Durga of stealing a valuable necklace, which Durga vehemently denies. [[spoiler:While packing to leave Apu finds the necklace, throwing it in the lake to hide the fact that his sister was a liar and thief.]] |
25 | * ElderAbuse: Sarbajaya towards the elderly "Auntie" Indir. |
26 | * {{Flynning}}: The sword fight in the ShowWithinAShow has no choreography to speak of: it's just two actors striking their swords together in a repetitive pattern, alternately high and low. This being a pretty stylized form of theater, it's more an abstraction of fighting than an attempt to make it look real. |
27 | * MatchCut: A rather unconventional cut from Sarbjaya, sitting outside the house, weeping, to--Sarbjaya again, still sitting outside the house and weeping in the same position. |
28 | * RandomEventsPlot: As Ray put it: |
29 | --> I felt that to cast the thing in to a mould of cut-and-dried narrative would be wrong. The script had to retain some of the rambling quality of the novel, because that in itself contained a clue to the feel of authenticity; life in a poor Bengali village does ramble. |
30 | * SceneryPorn: Tons, particularly during the famous sequence of Apu and Durga running through the fields after the train. |
31 | * SliceOfLife: The plot deals with the ordinary rather than the extraordinary. |
32 | * ThousandYardStare: Sarbajaya after [[spoiler:her daughter Durga dies. The entire family gives a particularly haunting one later as they ride a wagon away from their village.]] |
33 | * UntranslatedTitle: "Song of the Little Road" |
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