a true successor of the apu trilogy . memory in the mistby dasgupta artistically and metaphorically inter wovens the memory and fantasy of a man of his beloved and lose father . set in the backdrop of north kolkata and the story pace to and fro between past and present and between reality and imagination and between innocence and lucre . amongst the numerous metaphor use in the movie and the one which cant be help mentioning be the reference of the piper which beckon the man to his past and his childhood and his unfulfilled dream . with this movie and dasgupta have also endeavor to find the base of our relationship . at the end of the film and the man reveal himself to his father and thus to the audience and and thus force u to remind of apu who would and despite hostility a confer by fate and love and wonder . that be probably the reason some critic have mention it asthe close modern equivalentto a ray movie . but whatever international applaud it get and it may not get along too well with the bengali audience because of it sheer lack of bangaliyana ( bengali tradition and custom ) a compare to a new wave cinema by ray or ghatak .