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
Purushottam Agrawal watch cinema but to write on it also. He has written numerous articles and reviews on Hollywood and Bollywood films. He has published a book- Badalati Surat Waqt ki Badalati Murat Waqt ki- composed of his selected articles on films as ebook by notnul.com He has written on film personalities like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Vimol Roy etc. and films like Fahrenheit 451. He reviewed the film The Da Vinci Code. It is a published version of annual Gandhi Lecture, organized by Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi. He is awarded with Devi Shankar Awasthy Samman for Teesra Rukh, 1996, and Mukutdhar