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Movie Montage Special issue, Vol–I, No–2, Page 49–53: 1967 Interview: Movie Montage Vol–I, No–2, Page 54–58: 1967 Documentary Film: Sahitya–Patra Sept–Nov issue, Page 117–121: 1967 The Position of Cinema in the Society: Movie Montage Vol–I, No–3, Page 3–4: 1967 Bengali Society and Bengali Cinema
The movie was based on a story and screenplay by legendary film director Ritwik Ghatak. Uttam Kumar , Rina Ghosh, Bhanu Bandopadhyay , and Tarun Kumar portray the main characters. [ 2 ]
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 feminism.
This is a theme that Ghatak helped portray when working on Chinnamul, and one that would permeate most of his later creations. The film is not a study in pessimism but ends on a positive note with a speech by Ramu hoping for a new future. This has been considered overtly Marxist considering Ghatak's involvement with group theatre and the IPTA.
After Ghatak's death, his work (and this film in particular) began to attract a more sizable global audience, via film festivals and the subsequent release of DVDs both in India and in Europe. Meghe Dhaka Tara is strongly melodramatic in tone, especially as concerns the sufferings heaped on the protagonist.
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As in other films by Ghatak, music plays a pivotal role in the movie. Through the microcosmic perspectivising of a group of devoted and uncompromising IPTA workers, Ghatak with his signature style touches on varied issues of partition, idealism, corruption, the interdependence of art and life, the scope of art, and class-struggle. Unlike his ...
' Traveller ') is a 1957 Hindi film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, being his directorial debut. The screenplay and story were written by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Ritwik Ghatak respectively. The film is about a house and the lives of three families who live in it, so in essence, it is three stories linked by the house.