The initial installment of Satyajit Ray’s trilogy presents us with the impoverished family of young “Apu” (Subir Banerjee). They were once owners of a guava orchard, but his father, "Harihar" (Kanu Bannerjee), a poet and thinker, had to give it up to pay off debts incurred by his irresponsible brother. Now, his mother, "Sarbojaya" (Karuna Bannerjee), struggles to provide for them, along with his mischievous sister “D…