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Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (listen ⓘ; 4 November 1925 – 6 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright. 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.
Ritwik Ghatak was born on 4 November 1925 in Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Dhaka, Bangladesh]. He was a director and writer, known for Reason, Debate and a Story (1974), Musafir (1957) and The Cloud-Capped Star (1960).
List of works by Ritwik Ghatak. 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.
Nov 02, 2021 11:22 AM IST. November 4 is auteur Ritwik Ghatak’s 96th birth anniversary. While many know his films, few are acquainted with his written work comprising essays and stories whose...
Nov 1, 2019 · Ghatak’s singular filmic vision depicts the implacable, everyday groping toward hope, if not a home, that can and will encumber a life lived in exile. ‘Poetry and Partition: The Films of Ritwik Ghatak’ will be presented at Lincoln Center, New York, USA, from 1–6 November 2019.
Nov 4, 2022 · If Satyajit Ray was the poster-boy for Indian cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented and reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child.
Ritwik Ghatak was born on November 4, 1925 in Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Dhaka, Bangladesh]. He was a director and writer, known for Reason, Debate and a Story (1974), Musafir (1957) and The Cloud-Capped Star (1960). He was married to Surama Ghatak.
Apr 14, 2024 · The luminosity of the ‘dhaka tara’: Remembering filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, an ‘icon’oclast. An occasion that may cause a flurry of such activity is at hand: the redoubtable filmmaker is going to turn 100 soon. He was born on November 4, 1925. The centennial celebrations have begun.
Nov 1, 2023 · “I am burning, everyone is burning, the universe is burning”: Derek Malcolm on the films of Ritwik Ghatak. Despite a career affected by his troubles with alcoholism, Ritwik Ghatak was one of India’s most obviously talented filmmakers, wrote Malcolm in our Summer 1982 issue.
Jul 30, 2013 · Six years ago at the age of 50 Ritwik Ghatak died in Calcutta, a figure particularly amenable to the pat cliches journalism reserves for the tortured bohemian: passionate, derelict, adventurous, frustrated, ravaged by drink and frankly bewildered by the disintegrating world around him.
