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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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
