Satyajit RayCast
Pinaki Sengupta Smaran Ghosal Kanu Banerjee Karuna Banerjee
Credits
Written by: 
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Plot
Apu grows up in Benares and Calcutta and pursues an education, leaving his mother behind.
Sinekatalog’s take
Satyajit Ray's second Apu film follows the boy's adolescence and his mother's loneliness. Quieter and sadder than Pather Panchali, it won the Golden Lion and stands as a humane, patient masterpiece.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 8.2 / 10 (20,417 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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