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Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (listen ⓘ; 4 November 1925 – 6 February 1976) [3] was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright. [4] Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers like Satyajit Ray , Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen , his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality, partition and ...
Ritwik Ghatak, at a young age. Ritwik Ghatak was an Indian filmmaker and also a playwright poet and writer of short stories. Ghatak started his creative career as a poet and a fiction writer. Then he began writing for the theater and became involved with Gananatya Sangha and Indian People's Theatre Association. Later he moved to film direction.
The Citizen), was the first feature-length film directed by legendary Indian director Ritwik Ghatak. [1] Completed in 1952 , it preceded Satyajit Ray 's Pather Panchali as perhaps the first example of an art film in Bengali cinema , but is deprived of that honor, since it was released twenty-four years later, after Ghatak's death.
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (Bengali: তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম), or A River Called Titas, is a 1973 Indian-Bangladeshi film directed by Ritwik Ghatak. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film was based on the novel of the same name , by Adwaita Mallabarman . [ 3 ]
In an interview Ghatak described his wife Surama Ghatak as a Sati (a very pious woman, and consort of Shiva). Ritaban Ghatak (Ghatak's real life son) played the character of Nilkantha Bagchi's son Satya. In Sanskrit and Bengali the word Satya means "true" or "real". The character Nachiketa is inspired by the Hindu mythological character Nachiketa.
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Meghe Dhaka Tara (Bengali: মেঘে ঢাকা তারা Mēghē Ḍhākā Tārā, lit. The Cloud-Capped Star) is a 1960 film written and directed by Ritwik Ghatak, based on a social novel by Shaktipada Rajguru with the same title.
Realism in Indian cinema dates back to the 1920s and 1930s. One of the earliest examples was Baburao Painter's 1925 silent film classic Savkari Pash (Indian Shylock), about a poor peasant (portrayed by V. Shantaram) who "loses his land to a greedy moneylender and is forced to migrate to the city to become a mill worker. [2]