Best films of SOUMITRA CHAT TERJEE

APUR SANSAR (1959)

DIRECTOR: Satyajit Ray

CAST: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee

The film marked the debut of Soumitra into films and what a debut it turned out to be. Apurba Kumar Roy “Apu” (Soumitra Chatterjee) is an unemployed graduate living in Kolkata. He accompanies a friend to the latter’s ancestral village for the marriage of his friend’s cousin Aparna (Sharmila Tagore). On seeing that the prospective groom has a mental disorder, the bride’s mother breaks off the marriage. Apu is forced by the villagers to marry Aparna and after initial reluctance, he agrees. Both he and she are in marital bliss despite living in poverty. Their happiness is cut short when Aparna