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
Karuna Banerjee Karuna Banerjee Karuna Banerjee () (25 December 1919 – 13 November 2001) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray's "The Apu Trilogy" (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 1959 BAFTA Awards for her performance in "Aparajito" (1956), the second part of "The Apu Trilogy". She appeared in a number of other films after that, including Ray's "Devi" (1960) and "Kanchenjungha" (1962). She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated women's college of the University of Calcutta. Karuna Banerjee (aka Karuna Bandhyopadhyay) had an acting career