Titash Ekti Nadir Naam
| তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম / Titas Ekti Nadir Naam | |
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| Directed by | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Produced by | Habibur Rahman Khan |
| Written by | Ritwik Ghatak (screenplay), Advaita Malla Burman (the original novel) |
| Starring | Golam Mustafa, Kabori Choudhury, Roushan Jamil, Prabir Mitra, Rosy Samad, Rani Sarkar, Fakrul Hasan Bairagi |
| Music by | Ritwik Ghatak (music theme), Ustad Bahadur Khan |
| Cinematography | Baby Islam |
| Editing by | Basheer Hussain |
| Running time | 159 min. |
| Language | Bangla |
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (Bengali: তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম, English: A River Named Titash) is a 1973 Bengali film directed by Ritwik Ghatak. The movie was based on a novel by the same name, written by Advaita Malla Burman. The movie explores the life of the fishermen on the bank of the Titash River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
Rosy Samad, Golam Mostafa, Kabori, Prabir Mitra, and Roushan Jamil acted in the main roles.[1] The shooting of the movie took a toll on Ghatak's health, as he was suffering from tuberculosis at the time.[2]
Alongside Satyajit Ray's Kanchenjungha (1962)[3] and Mrinal Sen's Calcutta 71 (1972), Titash Ekti Nadir Naam is one of the earliest films to resemble hyperlink cinema, featuring multiple characters in a collection of interconnected stories, predating Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
In 2007, A River Named Titash topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films, as chosen in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute.[2]
[edit] Ghatak on the film
- "Could the civilization be destroyed for ever? No it isn't. It's transformed. This is the motif I wanted to highlight through this film."
- "Without me, Titash couldn't be possible. Titash was my dream."
[edit] References
- ^ Silver Jubilee, Bangladesh Film Archive celebrations, Events on the 2nd day, Ersahad Kamol, The Daily Star, June 11, 2004.
- ^ a b "Top 10 Bangladesh Films". British Film Institute. 17 July 2007. http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^ "An Interview with Satyajit Ray". 1982. http://raylifeandwork.blogspot.com/2009/02/interview-with-satyajit-ray.html. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
[edit] External links
- Titas Ekti Nadir Naam (তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম ) at the Internet Movie Database
- Titas Ekti Nadir Naam at The Complete Index of World Film
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