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But they could not think of letting their son act in the film. My father, Shantimay Bandyopadhyay, and mother, Jharna Bandyopadhyay, knew Satyajit Ray as a great artist. They picked me for Apu, but the real problem came now: convincing my parents. In a way it was she who first thought of the possibility of casting me as Apu,вЂ™ Subir Bandyopadhyay said TT Archives вЂI learnt that Kakima used to observe me playing in the verandah of our house. Hers was no mean contribution behind the creation of Pather Panchali. In a way, it was she who first thought of the possibility of casting me as Apu. Later, I learnt that Kakima used to observe me playing in the verandah of our house. (I have preserved that photograph taken by Satyajit Ray with me to this day.) We returned home thereafter. IвЂ™ll take photographs of you both.вЂ™ Taking us to the rooftop he took photographs of both of us. Then he asked me my name, which school and class I was in and all that. Kakababu looked at me for quite a while, turning me this way and that, the way a photographer observes his subjects. And here he is, next door, you never noticed! Look, I have brought your Apu.вЂ™ Thakuma smiled and said, вЂManik, you have been looking for Apu all over Kolkata. A little later, the huge, tall kakababu came in вЂ“ the one I frequently saw from our verandah. I was feeling a little nervous, but now all fears vanished. Thakuma (Suprabha) kissed me and offered toffee to both of us. The other one was Bijoya Ray, his wife вЂ“ I would come to call her kakima.

Later, I learnt that the elderly lady was Suprabha Ray, Satyajit RayвЂ™s mother. I saw two beautiful ladies sitting there. RayвЂ™s old house on Lake Temple Road, where he was next-door neighbour to his вЂApuвЂ™ TT archives They decided to let me go вЂ“ not alone but with my elder brother. I donвЂ™t know why.вЂ™ My parents knew Satyajit Ray.

The man said, вЂ Dadababu wanted me to bring him. Mother came out and inquired why he was asking for me. Could it be a child lifter? Taken aback, I just ran to my mother. Suddenly, someone from the house next door вЂ“ perhaps their domestic help вЂ“ smiled at me and said, вЂMy boy, Dadababu is calling you.вЂ™ Who was Dadababu? I had no idea. One morning I was playing in the compound. I only knew that the kakababu next door was a tall man вЂ“ to look at him, one had to bend oneвЂ™s head sufficiently backwards. Of course, I was too small at the time to know all this. Satyajit Ray was our next-door neighbour вЂ“ already a well-known name, a commercial artist in D.J.

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Subir Bandyopadhyay goes back in time to recall his stint in the only film he acted in, including Ray coaxing his reluctant parents to allow him to act in Pather Panchali, and the taxi driver Bachchan Singh who ferried them to and from location in BoralвЂ¦ Only for his mother, Suprabha Devi, to discover him next door. Satyajit Ray had looked all over the city for his вЂApuвЂ™. Subir Bandyopadhyay as Apu in Satyajit RayвЂ™s вЂPather PanchaliвЂ™ Government of West Bengal

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