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Celebrating Bengal's Cinematic Legends: Satyajit Ray and Tapan Sinha at Durga Puja Pandals | Kolkata News - Times of India
Works of Satyajit Ray and Tapan Sinha, two among the legendary quartet that includes Ritwik Ghatak
The Times of India
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‘Kolkata tram is a link between life and literature’
A link between life and literature — that’s how Sabyasachi Chatterjee describes the Kolkata t...
The Hindu
2 days ago
Satyajit Ray did what he could to promote his colleague, but Ray's generous praise did not translate into international fame for Ghatak. For example, Ghatak's Nagarik (1952) was perhaps the earliest example of a Bengali art film, preceding Ray's Pather Panchali by three years but was not released until after his death in 1977.
Mar 4, 2021 · Even though Bengalis might be divided into (Satyajit) Ray and Ghatak camps, Ray himself considered Ghatak as one of Bengal’s finest filmmakers of the 1950s–60s. While he scripted the 1958 blockbuster Madhumati (directed by Bimal Roy, the year’s highest grossing film with Rs 4 crore), Ghatak confined his filmmaking to Bengal. He managed ...
Oct 31, 2019 · The vaguely defined movement would become known as parallel cinema, and its one true international star director is, of course, Satyajit Ray. Ritwik Ghatak, on the other hand, is “the unknown great among the independent Indian directors of the twentieth century,” as the Arsenal put it on the occasion of retrospective in Berlin in 2016.
Nov 4, 2018 · Revolutionary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak mirrored the pain of Bengal’s partition and refugee crisis through his famed trilogy, which began with Megha Dhaka Tara.
- Sharanya Munsi
If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child.
Nov 1, 2019 · Unlike Satyajit Ray, whose (undeniably beautiful) early narratives are immaculate constructions centred around the experience of childhood, and the backdrop of a home, Ghatak’s works reflect the fraught tumults of a nation at odds with itself. Ritwik Ghavak, E-Flat, 1961, film still. Courtesy: Film at Lincoln Center.
Oct 19, 2021 · For decades, the cine culture of West Bengal has shown a couple of apparently contradictory symptoms: upholding the ‘Ray-Ghatak-Sen’ triumvirate as a sort of holy pantheon within which the...
