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  1. 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 ...

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    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).

  3. Ghatak was a filmmakers filmmaker. He even fathered the ‘new wave’ of Indian films of 1970s and 1980s, through his FTII disciples. Shahani and Mani Kaul—the torchbearers of visual and cinematic radicalism in Indian films—were his favourites. So was the rebel of Malayalam films, John Abraham.

  4. 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.

  5. Nov 8, 2024 · Largely overshadowed by contemporary Bengali filmmakers like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen during his lifetime, Ritwik Ghatak was a pioneer of parallel or New Indian Cinema — a film movement inspired by Italian neorealism that originated in West Bengal in the 1950s and brought social realism and naturalism to Indian cinema.

  6. Nov 4, 2024 · 100 years of portrayer of Partition who changed cinema language: The legacy of Ritwik Ghatak Ghatak changed the narrative of Indian cinema, literally. As Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, former professor of film studies at Jadavpur University, underlines, Ghatak abandoned the realistic narrative to take cinema outside entertainment and Hollywood influence

  7. 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.

  8. Ritwik Ghatak (1925–76) was one of the most powerful artists to have emerged in post-independence India. He managed to finish only eight feature films and a few documentaries and shorts. Largely ignored by critics and audiences in his lifetime, he has gained wide recognition since the 1980s.

  9. 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.

  10. Jul 31, 2022 · The handful of films made by Ritwik Ghatak during his relatively short creative life, truncated by premature death, are generally seen as ‘other’ with respect to the cinema of Satyajit Ray and general mainstream cinema in India.

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