Harihar Ray

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Harihar Ray is the impoverished village priest and gentle, idealistic father whose struggles to support his family form a central thread of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel and Satyajit Ray’s film adaptation Pather Panchali.

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instanceOf fictional character
film character
literary character
adaptedForScreenBy Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED
appearsIn film Pather Panchali NERFINISHED
novel Pather Panchali
associatedWithWork Apu Trilogy NERFINISHED
characterIn Pather Panchali NERFINISHED
characterTrait gentle
idealistic
kind
optimistic
child Apu Ray NERFINISHED
Durga Ray NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship India
creator Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Bengali NERFINISHED
familyName Ray NERFINISHED
filmGenreOfWork Indian parallel cinema NERFINISHED
financialStatus impoverished
firstAppearance novel Pather Panchali (1929) NERFINISHED
firstFilmAppearance Pather Panchali (1955 film) NERFINISHED
gender male
givenName Harihar NERFINISHED
languageOfWork Bengali NERFINISHED
literaryGenreOfWork Bengali realist fiction
mediumOfAdaptation Bengali cinema
nameInBengali হরিহর রায় NERFINISHED
narrativeFunction represents struggling rural intellectual
narrativeRole central character in Pather Panchali
father of Apu
notableFor depiction of rural poverty in Bengal
struggles to support his family
occupation poet
village priest
partOf Apu’s family
portrayedInFilmBy Kanu Banerjee NERFINISHED
pursues literary ambitions
relatedWorkAuthor Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED
relatedWorkDirector Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED
religion Hinduism
residence rural Bengal village
setting early 20th century rural Bengal
spouse Sarbajaya Ray NERFINISHED
strugglesWith poverty
supporting his family

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