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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).
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...
Since his death at age fifty in 1976, Ritwik Ghatak has come to be regarded as one of the greatest figures in postwar Indian cinema for his brilliant and abrasive films, among the most revolutionary achievements in contemporary Indian art.
Since his death at age fifty in 1976, Ritwik Ghatak has come to be regarded as one of the greatest figures in postwar Indian cinema for his brilliant and abrasive films, which certainly rank among the most revolutionary achievements in contemporary Indian art.
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.
Oct 31, 2019 · Rosy Samad in Ritwik Ghatak’s A River Called Titas (1973) The 1950s saw the emergence of a group of primarily Bengali filmmakers whose work, rooted in social realism and shot through with the trauma of the partition of India in 1947, rejected the conventions of mainstream Indian cinema.
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.
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.
