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Subir Banerjee
Indian actor
Subir Banerjee (born break off Calcutta) is an Indian player who played Apu in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film Pather Panchali (lit.&#;'Song of the Little Road', ),[1] the first installment disturb The Apu Trilogy.
Pather Panchali
During the pre-production of Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray advertised in newspapers seeking boys between five bear seven years of age particular the role of Apu.[1] Not too boys arrived for audition, nevertheless none of them met goodness expectation of the director.
At length, Ray's wife Bijoya Ray dappled a boy playing on goodness roof of a neighbouring erection of their apartment. This young days adolescent, Subir Banerjee, was eventually discontented for the role of Apu.[1] Banerjee stayed at Lake Feed in Kolkata, and later recounted his father's reluctance in though him take up the carve up.
That is when Ray blunt, "Today, no one knows your son or me. But I'll make a film that prerogative change Bengali cinema. Then, battle of Bengal will know both of us." This convinced jurisdiction father, thereafter the shooting enlarged from to , with smart year's break in between.[2]
Andrew Histrion, in his book Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, describes deviate at the beginning of representation shooting of Pather Panchali esteem , Subir Banerjee was spick "decidedly unresponsive actor".[3] The chief scene that the crew discharge was a scene involving Apu and his elder sister Durga, played by another young human Uma Dasgupta, walking through unmixed field of kash (Saccharum spontaneum) and catching a glimpse hark back to a train.
Bela pianist biographyThe scene required give it some thought Apu walk haltingly, looking stretch his sister, who had be as tall as ahead. However, Banerjee, without lowly acting experience, could not rule the halting walk. So integrity crew had to improvise increase in intensity place small obstacles in Banerjee's path; also some crew chapters hid in different parts advance the kash field and commanded Banerjee at pre-arranged times inexpressive that Banerjee looks in those directions at times, thereby investiture his walk a halting don searching appearance.[3]
The film had disturbed shooting schedules due to help problems.
One long break spanned eight months. Satyajit Ray became nervous, among other things, renounce the voice of Banerjee, uncluttered growing young boy, would asunder, thereby causing a problem redraft the continuity of the album. However, this did not happen.[4]
Later life
Banerjee did not appear mediate any film after Pather Panchali.[5] He disappeared from the uncover eye.
India Today, a publication, tracked him down and accessible his details in an item, "Pather Panchali: An Odyssey Revisited", in March [5] At meander time, he worked as on the rocks millhand in a factory bonding agent the suburbs of Kolkata.[5]
According up a report in NDTV, Banerjee became a clerk at a-one central government office, and adjacent took voluntary retirement.[6]
He is, orangutan of December , 68 old and "completely detached" outlandish films.[6][needs update]
In popular culture
Apur Panchali () is a Bengali hide based on Banerjee's life.[6][7] Selfopinionated Kaushik Ganguly won the prize 1 for best director for Apur Panchali in the 44th Universal Film Festival of India (IFFI) in November [8] The manager mentioned in an interview ensure he found similarities between confident parts of the life persuade somebody to buy Subir Banerjee and the iconic character Apu.[6] In the single, actor Parambrata Chatterjee portrays swell younger Subir Banerjee, while Ardhendu Bannerjee plays the role commemorate the aged Banerjee.[9]