This edition: Aparajito: The Unvanquished (1956)
Episode Details
Original tape date: May 26, 2017. First aired: September 30, 2017.(1956, India, Bengali/with English Subt., b&w) Director: Satyajit Ray. Writers: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (novel) (as Bibhutibhushan Banerji), Satyajit Ray (script by: in subtitles). Stars: Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Lalchand Banerjee.
After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Apu enters a local school, where he does well. By the time he graduates, he has a scholarship to study at a college in Calcutta. So off he goes. His mother is torn by his leaving, and by his growing independence. She loves her son very much and wants him to succeed, but she does not want to be left alone.
Discussion guest: Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College/CUNY.
Guest List
Ria Banerjee Guttman Community College/CUNY
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- Saturday, April 25 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, April 26 - 9:30pm
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- Saturday, April 4 - 12:15am
- Sunday, April 5 - 12:15am
- Call Northside 777
- Friday, March 20 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, March 21 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, March 22 - 9:30pm
- Friday, March 27 - 12:00am
- Saturday, March 28 - 12:00am
- Sunday, March 29 - 12:00am
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- Friday, March 13 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, March 14 - 9:30pm
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- Friday, March 20 - 12:00am
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- FALLEN ANGEL
- Friday, March 13 - 12:00am
- Saturday, March 14 - 12:00am
- Sunday, March 15 - 12:00am
