Six decades since Satyajit Ray's much-loved protagonist Apu reconciled with son Kajol in Apur Sansar (1959), cinephiles will find themselves in his world again. mid-day has learnt that director Subhrajit Mitra is set to offer Avijatrik — a Bengali drama that takes the story of Apur Sansar forward.

Presented by Madhur Bhandarkar, the film is based on the concluding part of the novel Aparajito, written by the late Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. Ray's works, Pather Panchali (1955) and Aparajito (1956) — that have achieved iconic status in world cinema since — were based on Bandopadhyay's novels by the same names.