Aparajito story
Aparajito is a 1956 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy. It is adapted from the last one-fifth of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Pather Panchali (1929) and the first one-third of its sequel Aparajito (1932). It starts off where the previous film Pather Panchali (1955) ended, with Apu's family moving to Varanasi, and chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college, right up to his mother's death, when he is left all alone.
12 total · 3 choice · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coming of age | choice | second half of story dealt with Apu turning into a man and standing on his own two legs |
| coping with the death of a parent | choice | It seemed the point of the story was to show how Apu lost his parents. |
| life in late modern India | choice | The film is set in urban Varanasi around 1920 and follows the lives of some more or less ordinary people. |
| coping with the death of a spouse | major | Sarbajaya mourned Harihar. |
| human childhood | major | we saw young Apu play in Varanasi |
| husband and wife | major | Harihar and Sarbajaya |
| mother and son | major | Sarbajaya and Apu |
| what it is like in high school | major | Apu went to two Indian schools that were probably neither quite "high" schools. |
| career choice | minor | Apu between being a priest or a scholar |
| coping with a loved one being gravely ill | minor | Everyone worried when Harihar fell ill. |