01 May 1959
Apur Sansar
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.
Runaway
Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.
Top Billed Cast
Param Bhattaraka Lahiri Kanchan
Kali Bannerjee Haridas
Padmadevi Mother
Keshto Mukherjee Ishu Bhelkiwala
Satindra Bhattacharya Mini's father
Niti Pandit Mini's mother
Gyanesh Mukherjee Father
Nripati Chatterjee Feriwala
Jahar Roy Non-Bengali man
Shriman Deepak Bechu Singha Nani Ganguly 
Jayanto Chattopadhyay
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