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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.
Dec 2, 2003 · In Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen’s account of Ritwik Ghatak’s place in the history of Indian cinema, they propose Ghatak was truly an original filmmaker with no cinematic predecessors.
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.
Nov 1, 2019 · Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s 1961 film Komal Gandhar (E-Flat, 1961) begins during the second act of a play. A close-up depicts an old, confused looking man – his hair and beard dusted with white powder, his plaintive gaze stressed by the thick kohl around his eyes – directly questioning the camera: ‘Where should I go? Tell me.
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.
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