In 1993, a fire severely damaged the negatives for all three films. The trilogy faced a major issue with regards to its restoration for home entertainment distribution though.
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These also found great success with critics, festivals and audiences, and the director went on to make a career full of masterpieces, though the Apu Trilogy remains his most famous work.
The World of Apu) (though supposedly he only made Apur Sansar after telling reporters at a film festival he would make a sequel without actually planning to do so). The Unvanquished) and Apur Sansar (a.k.a. The film’s success led Ray to follow-up the film with two sequels also based on the work of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Aparajito (a.k.a. Not only did it become popular in its home country (albeit after a slow start), it won a special Best Human Document award at the Cannes Film Festival and made a surprisingly decent amount of money for a foreign-language film in the West. However, when Ray’s version of Pather Panchali was finally completed in 1955 for its premiere at MoMA, it was well-received and word soon spread. It took several years to get the money together and 2 years to actually finish the shoot due to the restricted budget. Ray hadn’t made one before but had a great love of cinema, so the idea inspired him to take up the challenge. Ray was impressed by the book and his employer told him he believed it would make a great film. In 1944, he was asked to work on Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s popular autobiographical novel ‘Pather Panchali’. Ray began his career as an illustrator, working on book covers and illustrations. I’m not sure any set of films has been as overwhelmingly praised by critics and what makes this achievement extra special, is that these were among the first films made by the writer/director (though he made two others in-between the second and third chapters). However, there’s one holy grail of trilogies that I’ve shamefully only watched one segment of, and that’s Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy. I’ve reviewed a couple of strong contenders over the past year, namely The Vengeance Trilogy and The Koker Trilogy. However, the world/independent/arthouse cinema scene is not without its three-part sagas and arguably a number of these would easily trump the more popular choices, in terms of quality.
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A popular debate among movie lovers concerns ‘what is the best film trilogy?’ There are numerous mainstream candidates, such as the original Star Wars trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future and The Godfather (plus Toy Story before they went and made an unnecessary fourth chapter).
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