Apu Ray

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Apu Ray is the young Bengali boy whose coming-of-age journey forms the emotional core of Satyajit Ray’s acclaimed Apu Trilogy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
adaptedFrom character in Bengali literature
alsoKnownAs Apu NERFINISHED
appearsInWork Aparajito NERFINISHED
Apur Sansar NERFINISHED
Pather Panchali NERFINISHED
associatedWithDirector Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED
associatedWithRegion West Bengal NERFINISHED
basedOn Apu from Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novels
basedOnWork Aparajito (novel) NERFINISHED
Pather Panchali (novel) NERFINISHED
centralThemeOfStory coming of age
family and loss
poverty and aspiration
childhoodResidence Nischindipur (fictional village in Bengal) NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin India
createdBy Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED
creatorNationality Indian
culturalImpact influential representation of Indian childhood on film
education studies in Calcutta
ethnicity Bengali NERFINISHED
familyName Roy NERFINISHED
fictionalUniverse The Apu Trilogy universe NERFINISHED
fullName Apurba Kumar Roy NERFINISHED
gender male
genreContext Indian parallel cinema
realist drama
givenName Apurba NERFINISHED
languageSpoken Bengali
laterResidence Calcutta NERFINISHED
maritalStatus marries Aparna in Apur Sansar
medium cinema
narrativeRole coming-of-age hero
protagonist
occupation student (during much of the trilogy)
parentOf Kajol (son in Apur Sansar) NERFINISHED
partOf The Apu Trilogy NERFINISHED
placeOfFictionalBirth rural Bengal
portrayedBy Pinaki Sengupta NERFINISHED
Smaran Ghosal NERFINISHED
Soumitra Chatterjee NERFINISHED
Subir Banerjee NERFINISHED
significance emblematic figure of Bengali middle-class aspirations
iconic character in world cinema
symbol of childhood innocence and growth
timePeriodOfStory early 20th century Bengal

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