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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: At least Apu thinks so: he makes a point to feed the monkeys that are overrunning a temple. His mother can't stand them.

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* AdaptedOut: The original source novels had Leela, a love interest of Apu, that was one of the reasons why he is reluctant to leave the city for the village. Ray had concerns that it would effect his character motivations. After watching the movie however, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools he didn't feel her absence]].

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\n* AdaptedOut: The In the original source novels had Leela, a love interest of Apu, that was novels, one of the reasons why he reason Apu is reluctant to leave the city for the village. village is his romantic interest in local girl Leela. Ray had concerns that it would effect his affect Apu's character motivations. After motivations, but after watching the movie however, movies, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools he didn't feel her Leela's absence]].



* DiabolusExMachina: After the traumas the family suffered in ''Pather Panchali'', the family seems to have found stability when Harihar gets a job as a priest--until he catches a fever and croaks, sending Apu and his mother into a tailspin.

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* DiabolusExMachina: After the traumas the family suffered in ''Pather Panchali'', the family seems they seem to have found stability when Harihar gets a job as a priest--until he catches a fever and croaks, sending Apu and his mother into a tailspin.



* KitchenSinkDrama: A single mother struggles to rais her son while he struggles to improve himself.

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* KitchenSinkDrama: A single mother struggles to rais raise her son while he struggles to improve himself.



* UntranslatedTitle: "The Unvanquished"

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* UntranslatedTitle: "The Unvanquished"Unvanquished".
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* AdaptedOut: The original source novels had Leela, a love interest of Apu, that was one of the reasons why he is reluctant to leave the city for the village. Ray had concerns that it would effect his character motivations. After watching the movie however, [[TropesAreNotBad he didn't feel her absence]].

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* AdaptedOut: The original source novels had Leela, a love interest of Apu, that was one of the reasons why he is reluctant to leave the city for the village. Ray had concerns that it would effect his character motivations. After watching the movie however, [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools he didn't feel her absence]].
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* AdaptedOut: The original source novels had Leela, a love interest of Apu, that was one of the reasons why he is reluctant to leave the city for the village. Ray had concerns that it would effect his character motivations. After watching the movie however, [[TropesAreNotBad he didn't think feel her presence]].

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* AdaptedOut: The original source novels had Leela, a love interest of Apu, that was one of the reasons why he is reluctant to leave the city for the village. Ray had concerns that it would effect his character motivations. After watching the movie however, [[TropesAreNotBad he didn't think feel her presence]].absence]].



* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Apu makes a point to feed the monkeys that are overrunning a temple.

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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: At least Apu thinks so: he makes a point to feed the monkeys that are overrunning a temple.temple. His mother can't stand them.
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* AdaptedOut: The original source novels had Leela, a love interest of Apu, that was one of the reasons why he is reluctant to leave the city for the village. Ray had concerns that it would effect his character motivations. After watching the movie however, [[TropesAreNotBad he didn't think feel her presence]].
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* KitchenSinkDrama: A single mother struggles to rais her son while he struggles to improve himself.

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* DownerEnding

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* DownerEndingDownerEnding: Apu gets a letter that his mother is ill. He rushes back to the village only to discover that she has died. He winds up going back to Calcutta for school, now all alone in the world.



* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding
* StreetPerformer
* TimePassesMontage: A montage of shots of Apu showing off to his mother the knowledge he's been picking up in his books--explaining how eclipses work in one shot, dressing as an African tribesman in the next.

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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding
OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Apu wearily trudging back down the road to the train station, leaving his village behind, probably forever.
* StreetPerformer
StreetPerformer: A throwaway scene has Apu watching an exceptionally limber street contortionist.
* TimePassesMontage: TeenGenius: Going to school reveals that Apu is exceptionally bright. He winds up getting sent to a special school in Calcutta.
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A montage of shots of Apu showing off to his mother the knowledge he's been picking up in his books--explaining how eclipses work in one shot, dressing as an African tribesman in the next.next.
** A later montage shows Apu's studies in the Calcutta school, including chemistry experiments and using iron filings to show a magnetic field.
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* DownerEnding


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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding
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* StreetPerformer

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Adapted from the last fifth of the novel ''Pather Panchali'' and the first third of the sequel ''Aparajito''.

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Adapted from the last fifth of the novel ''Pather Panchali'' and the first third of the sequel ''Aparajito''.
''Aparajito''. The score is by Music/RaviShankar.



* DiabolusExMachina: After the traumas the family suffered in ''Pather Panchali'', the family seems to have found stability when Harihar gets a job as a priest--until he catches a fever and croaks, sending Apu and his mother into a tailspin.



* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys

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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeysEverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Apu makes a point to feed the monkeys that are overrunning a temple.



* TimePassesMontage

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* TimePassesMontageTimePassesMontage: A montage of shots of Apu showing off to his mother the knowledge he's been picking up in his books--explaining how eclipses work in one shot, dressing as an African tribesman in the next.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys



* UntranslatedForeignTitle: "The Unvanquished"

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* UntranslatedForeignTitle: UntranslatedTitle: "The Unvanquished"

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* TimeShiftedActor: Two different actors play Apu as a younger boy and as a teenager.

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* MatchCut: Two match cuts show Apu learning to light ''tulsi'' leaves as he learns to be a priest.
* TimeShiftedActor: Two different actors play Apu as a younger boy and as a teenager.teenager.
* UntranslatedForeignTitle: "The Unvanquished"
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* DisturbedDoves: The pigeons scatter as a priest starts singing in the temple by the Ganges. Soon they settle back down to eat bread crumbs.

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* DisturbedDoves: The pigeons scatter as a priest starts singing in from atop the temple by the Ganges. Soon they settle back down to eat bread crumbs.as Harihar dies.
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''Aparajito'' (1956) is an [[UsefulNotes/{{India}} Indian]] (specifically, Bengali) drama film directed by Creator/SatyajitRay. It is the second film in the "Apu Trilogy", proceeded by ''Literature/PatherPanchali'' and followed by ''Film/ApurSansar''.

Having left their village in Bengal at the end of ''Pather Panchali'', young Apu and his parents, father Harihar and mother Sarbajaya are now living in the city of Varanasi, by the Ganges River. Harihar has gotten a job as a priest and the family is doing OK--until Harihar catches a fever and suddenly dies. A widowed Sarbajaya is forced to work as a servant, struggling to survive and provide her intelligent son with an education.

Adapted from the last fifth of the novel ''Pather Panchali'' and the first third of the sequel ''Aparajito''.

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* ComingOfAgeStory: Follows Apu as he grows from a boy into an adolescent in his late teens.
* DisturbedDoves: The pigeons scatter as a priest starts singing in the temple by the Ganges. Soon they settle back down to eat bread crumbs.
* TimeShiftedActor: Two different actors play Apu as a younger boy and as a teenager.

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