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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.
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 ...
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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.
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.
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.
Bari Theke Paliye (English-language title: Runaway or The Runaway) is a 1959 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak. [2] [3]This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) based on the same name novel by Shibram Chakraborty. [4]