Aparajito

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.

• scholarship
• based on novel or book
• loss of loved one
• varanasi
• pneumonia
• sequel
• coming of age
• black and white
• india
• calcutta
• mother son relationship