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| | DVD Verdict Review - The World Of Apu |
 | | Apu's story picks up in adulthood (in which he is played by Soumitra Chatterjee, who would become one of Ray's most frequent players), with Apu graduated from college and living in Calcutta, where he is a struggling writer working on an autobiographical novel. |
 | | The World of Apu is presented with straightforward realism, its joys and heartbreaks coming not from the pen of a writer but from the cosmos itself—a cosmos that cares nothing for human morality or mercy, but demands that human beings forge their own path through life. |
 | | Scenes with Apu and Aparna bantering playfully in their apartment, Apu at a train station learning of a loved one's death, and a distraught Apu considering ending his own life, are shot with unadorned, raw intensity, Ray's directorial eye drawing the humanity of his characters into the forefront of every shot. |
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