Director, screenwriter, actor and playwright Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) is considered one of the greatest Indian filmmakers. Renowned today for his Bengal Partition trilogy (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960; ...

As part of the tribute, his films, Ghatak’s films, including Ajantrik, Bari Theke Paliye, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Komal Gandhar, Titas Ekti Nadir Naam, and Subarnarekha, will be screened. The 31st Kolkata ...

We are talking about 1955-56. Nagarik had been made, and its release scotched in 1952. He married Surama in mid-1955. The story of those years – Ritwik’s time in the city he called ‘rotten’ and ‘crude ...

Ritwik Kumar Ghatak was a Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous ...

There are two ways we get to see — and know — a city: by setting foot in it, and through cinema. In the case of cinema too, there are two ways to become familiar with a place: through commercial ...

Charaiveti! Charaiveti! With these enchanting words (which means keep moving) from the Aitareya Brahmana, Ritwik Ghatak’s film Subarnarekha (Golden Thread) begins as a scroll moves upwards showing the ...

Gopalakrishnan was in town for the first Ritwik Ghatak Memorial Conversation, with filmmaker Anup Singh, at Sisir Mancha on Wednesday, which was the highlight of the penultimate day of the Kolkata ...