The Apu Trilogy 1995 film "My Family", the final scene is duplicated from the final scene of "Apur Sansar". Similar influences and references to the trilogy can be found, for example, in recent works such as "Sacred Evil", Key's 2004 visual novel "Clannad", Paul Auster's 2008 novel "Man in the Dark", the "Elements trilogy" of Deepa Mehta and even in films of Jean-Luc Godard. The technique of bounce lighting pioneered by Subrata Mitra, to recreate the effect of daylight on sets, has also had a profound influence on the development of cinematography. Ravi Shankar's soundtracks to the films were also a major influence
The Apu Trilogy to create other highly acclaimed films, like "Charulata", "Mahanagar", and "Aranyer Dinratri", and his international success energised other Bengal filmmakers like Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak. This extract from "Youth", by South African author J. M. Coetzee, talks of the music in the "Apu trilogy", which is based on Indian classical music: On Rotten Tomatoes, "Pather Panchali" has a 97% fresh rating based on an aggregate of 38 reviews and in 2009 was included in its list of top 100 foreign films. "Aparajito" has a 94% fresh rating based on an aggregate of 16 reviews, and "Apur Sansar" ("The World