The Wolrd Of Apu

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy is The World Of Apu (1959) and it has all of the elements that make the other versions special as well. These films depict an exotic culture, but the struggles are universal to everyone: love, death, and poverty. The music is by future music legend Ravi Shankar and the cinematography by Subatra Mita is splendid as usual with great location scenery and expressive use of close ups and other camera movement. There is a great edit where a movie is dissolved into the window of a cab moving through the streets with Apu (Somitra Chatterjee) and his new bride, Aparna (Sharmila Tagore), whom he married on a whim. From this happy married tragedy ensues. I have read that some critics see this as the weakest link in the Trilogy, but I disagree I think it as a whole is a truly special document and on their own each film has much merit and this one in particular i think the director is in his prime creating an emotional and powerful film.