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Ritwik Ghatak
Writer 1925 - 1976

Ritwik Ghatak

Dacca, East Bengal, British India

Ritwik Kumar Ghatak was a Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality. Although their roles were often adversarial, they... Read full bio →

Filmography

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7 titles
Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo

Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo

Ritwik Ghatak 1974 2h

Four men, each peculiar in his own way, embark on a quest to reason with the estranged wife of the protagonist. This is considered to be Ghatak's autobiographical film.

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Ritwik Ghatak 1973 2h 39m

An in-depth look at the lives and struggles of the community of fishermen living by the river Titash.

Subarnarekha

Subarnarekha

Ritwik Ghatak 1965 2h 3m

After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal.

Komal Gandhar

Komal Gandhar

Ritwik Ghatak 1961 2h 4m

Set in 1950s Calcutta against the partition of India, the plot follows two rival factions born out of the divided leadership of the radical IPTA theater movement. Amidst their intense creative differences, a romance develops between two uprooted refugees, Bhrigu and Anusuya.

Meghe Dhaka Tara

Meghe Dhaka Tara

Ritwik Ghatak 1960 2h 7m 9.0

A film about a daughter of a refugee family and her tregic story "meghe daka tara"

Madhumati

Madhumati

Bimal Roy 1958 2h 51m

Two men take shelter in a derelict mansion situated in the countryside during a storm. One of the men suddenly becomes aware that he once visited this mansion in a past life; he recounts a story about when he was Anand, a painter, who fell in love with a tribal girl named Madhumati.

Ajantrik

Ajantrik

Ritwik Ghatak 1958 1h 42m

Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye.

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