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In 1948, Ghatak wrote his first play ''Kalo sayar'' (The Dark Lake), and participated in a revival of the landmark play ''[[Nabanna]]''. In 1951, Ghatak joined the Indian People's Theatre Association ( [[IPTA]] ). He wrote, directed and acted in plays and translated [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Gogol]] into Bengali. In 1957, he wrote and directed his last play ''Jwala'' (The Burning). |
In 1948, Ghatak wrote his first play ''Kalo sayar'' (The Dark Lake), and participated in a revival of the landmark play ''[[Nabanna]]''. In 1951, Ghatak joined the Indian People's Theatre Association ( [[IPTA]] ). He wrote, directed and acted in plays and translated [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Gogol]] into Bengali. In 1957, he wrote and directed his last play ''Jwala'' (The Burning). |
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Ghatak entered the film industry with Nemai Ghosh's ''Chinnamul'' (1950) as actor and assistant director. ''Chinnamul'' was followed two years later by Ghatak's first completed film ''[[Nagarik]]'' (1952), both major break-throughs for the [[Cinema of India|Indian cinema]]. Ghatak's early work sought theatrical and literary precedent in bringing together a [[Documentary film|documentary]] realism, a remarkable stylized performance often drawn from the folk theatre, and a Brechtian use of the filmic apparatus. |
Ghatak entered the film industry with Nemai Ghosh's ''Chinnamul'' (1950) as actor and assistant director. ''Chinnamul'' was followed two years later by Ghatak's first completed film ''[[Nagarik]]'' (1952), both major break-throughs for the [[Cinema of India|Indian cinema]].<ref name=Ghatak>{{Harvard reference | Surname1 = Ghatak | Given1 = Ritwik | Year = 2000 | Title = Rows and Rows of Fences: Ritwik Ghatak on Cinema | Publisher = Ritwik Memorial & Trust Seagull Books | ISBN = 8170461782 | pages= ix & 134-36 }}</ref><ref name=Hood>{{Harvard reference | Surname1 = Hood | Given1 = John | Year = 2000 | Title = The Essential Mystery: The Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema | Publisher = Orient Longman Limited | ISBN = 8125018700 | pages=21-4 }}</ref> Ghatak's early work sought theatrical and literary precedent in bringing together a [[Documentary film|documentary]] realism, a remarkable stylized performance often drawn from the folk theatre, and a Brechtian use of the filmic apparatus. |
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Ghatak's first commercial release was ''[[Ajantrik]]'' (1958), a [[comedy-drama]] film with [[science fiction]] themes. It was one of the earliest films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an [[automobile]], as a character in the story. |
Ghatak's first commercial release was ''[[Ajantrik]]'' (1958), a [[comedy-drama]] film with [[science fiction]] themes. It was one of the earliest films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an [[automobile]], as a character in the story. |
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==Impact and influence== |
==Impact and influence== |
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At the time of his death (February 1976), Ghatak's primary impact would seem to have been through former students. Though his stint teaching film at FTII was brief, one-time students [[Mani Kaul]], [[John Abraham (Director)|John Abraham]], and especially [[Kumar Shahani]] (among many others), carried Ghatak's ideas and theories, which were further elaborated upon in his book '' |
At the time of his death (February 1976), Ghatak's primary impact would seem to have been through former students. Though his stint teaching film at FTII was brief, one-time students [[Mani Kaul]], [[John Abraham (Director)|John Abraham]], and especially [[Kumar Shahani]] (among many others), carried Ghatak's ideas and theories, which were further elaborated upon in his book ''Cinema And I'', into the mainstream of [[Parallel Cinema|Indian art film]]. Other students of his at the FTII included the acclaimed filmmakers [[Saeed Akhtar Mirza]] and [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Summer Viewing - The Brilliance Of Ritwik Ghatak|author=Chitra Parayath|publisher=Lokvani|date=08/11/2004|url=http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=1899|accessdate=2009-05-30}}</ref> |
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Ghatak stood entirely outside the world of [[Cinema of India|Indian commercial film]]. None of the elements of the commercial cinema (singing and dancing, melodrama, stars, glitz) featured in his work. He was watched by students and intelligentsia, not by the masses. His students have also tended to work in the art cinema or independent cinema tradition. |
Ghatak stood entirely outside the world of [[Cinema of India|Indian commercial film]]. None of the elements of the commercial cinema (singing and dancing, melodrama, stars, glitz) featured in his work. He was watched by students and intelligentsia, not by the masses. His students have also tended to work in the art cinema or independent cinema tradition. |
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[[Satyajit Ray]], commonly held to be the greatest of the Bengali [[Neorealism (art)|neo-realist]] directors, succeeded in creating an audience outside [[India]] during his lifetime and winning many prestigious international awards. Ghatak was not so fortunate. While he was alive, his films were appreciated primarily within India. 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 (film)|Pather Panchali]]'' by three years, but was never released until after his death in 1977. His first commercial release ''[[Ajantrik]]'' (1958) was also one of the earliest films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an [[automobile]], as a character in the story, many years before the [[Herbie]] films. Ghatak's ''[[Bari Theke Paliye]]'' (1958) also had many similarities to [[François Truffaut]]'s later film ''[[The 400 Blows]]'' (1959), but Ghatak's film remained obscure while Truffaut's film went on to become one of the most famous films of the [[French New Wave]]. |
[[Satyajit Ray]], commonly held to be the greatest of the Bengali [[Neorealism (art)|neo-realist]] directors, succeeded in creating an audience outside [[India]] during his lifetime and winning many prestigious international awards. Ghatak was not so fortunate. While he was alive, his films were appreciated primarily within India. 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 (film)|Pather Panchali]]'' by three years, but was never released until after his death in 1977.<ref name=Ghatak/><ref name=Hood/> His first commercial release ''[[Ajantrik]]'' (1958) was also one of the earliest films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an [[automobile]], as a character in the story, many years before the [[Herbie]] films.<ref>{{citation|first=Megan|last=Carrigy|title=Ritwik Ghatak|journal=[[Senses of Cinema]]|date=October 2003|url=http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/ghatak.html|accessdate=2009-05-03}}</ref> Ghatak's ''[[Bari Theke Paliye]]'' (1958) also had many similarities to [[François Truffaut]]'s later film ''[[The 400 Blows]]'' (1959), but Ghatak's film remained obscure while Truffaut's film went on to become one of the most famous films of the [[French New Wave]]. One of Ghatak's final films, ''[[Titash Ekti Nadir Naam|A River Named Titas]]'' (1973), is one of the earliest films to be told in a [[Hyperlink cinema|hyperlink format]], featuring multiple characters in a collection of interconnected stories, predating [[Robert Altman]]'s ''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]'' (1975) by two years. |
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Ghatak's only major commercial success was ''[[Madhumati]]'' (1958), a [[Bollywood|Hindi film]] which he wrote the [[screenplay]] for. The film was one of the earliest to deal with the theme of [[reincarnation]] and is believed to have been the source of inspiration for many later works dealing with the theme of reincarnation in [[Cinema of India|Indian cinema]], [[Television in India|Indian television]], and perhaps [[world cinema]]. It may have been the source of inspiration for the American film ''[[The Reincarnation of Peter Proud]]'' (1975) and the Hindi film ''[[Karz (film)|Karz]]'' (1980), both of which dealt with reincarnation and have been influential in their respective cultures.<ref name=Doniger>{{citation|last=Doniger|first=Wendy|title=The woman who pretended to be who she was: myths of self-imitation|chapter=Chapter 6: Reincarnation|pages=112-136 [135]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2005|isbn=0195160169}}</ref> ''Karz'' in particular was remade several times: as the [[Cinema of Karnataka|Kannada film]] ''Yuga Purusha'' (1989), the [[Tamil cinema|Tamil film]] ''[[Enakkul Oruvan]]'' (1984), and more recently the [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Karzzzz (film)|Karzzzz]]'' (2008). ''Karz'' may have also inspired the American film ''[[Chances Are (film)|Chances Are]]'' (1989).<ref name=Doniger/> The most recent film to be directly inspired by ''Madhumati'' is the hit Bollywood film ''[[Om Shanti Om (film)|Om Shanti Om]]'' (2007), which led to the late [[Bimal Roy]]'s daughter [[Rinki Bhattacharya]] accusing the film of plagiarism and threatening legal action against its producers.<ref name=mir>[http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?page=article§id=30&contentid=20080807200808070235582987cdd87f Ashanti nags Om Shanti Om ] [[Mumbai Mirror]], [[August 7]], [[2008]].</ref><ref name=hum>[http://www.humsurfer.com/shah-rukh-farah-sued-writer-claims-srk-stole-his-script-for-om-shanti-om Shah Rukh, Farah Sued: Writer Claims SRK stole his script for Om Shanti Om]</ref> |
Ghatak's only major commercial success was ''[[Madhumati]]'' (1958), a [[Bollywood|Hindi film]] which he wrote the [[screenplay]] for. The film was one of the earliest to deal with the theme of [[reincarnation]] and is believed to have been the source of inspiration for many later works dealing with the theme of reincarnation in [[Cinema of India|Indian cinema]], [[Television in India|Indian television]], and perhaps [[world cinema]]. It may have been the source of inspiration for the American film ''[[The Reincarnation of Peter Proud]]'' (1975) and the Hindi film ''[[Karz (film)|Karz]]'' (1980), both of which dealt with reincarnation and have been influential in their respective cultures.<ref name=Doniger>{{citation|last=Doniger|first=Wendy|title=The woman who pretended to be who she was: myths of self-imitation|chapter=Chapter 6: Reincarnation|pages=112-136 [135]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2005|isbn=0195160169}}</ref> ''Karz'' in particular was remade several times: as the [[Cinema of Karnataka|Kannada film]] ''Yuga Purusha'' (1989), the [[Tamil cinema|Tamil film]] ''[[Enakkul Oruvan]]'' (1984), and more recently the [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Karzzzz (film)|Karzzzz]]'' (2008). ''Karz'' and ''The Reincarnation of Peter Proud'' may have also inspired the American film ''[[Chances Are (film)|Chances Are]]'' (1989).<ref name=Doniger/> The most recent film to be directly inspired by ''Madhumati'' is the hit Bollywood film ''[[Om Shanti Om (film)|Om Shanti Om]]'' (2007), which led to the late [[Bimal Roy]]'s daughter [[Rinki Bhattacharya]] accusing the film of plagiarism and threatening legal action against its producers.<ref name=mir>[http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?page=article§id=30&contentid=20080807200808070235582987cdd87f Ashanti nags Om Shanti Om ] [[Mumbai Mirror]], [[August 7]], [[2008]].</ref><ref name=hum>[http://www.humsurfer.com/shah-rukh-farah-sued-writer-claims-srk-stole-his-script-for-om-shanti-om Shah Rukh, Farah Sued: Writer Claims SRK stole his script for Om Shanti Om]</ref> |
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Ghatak's impact as a director began to spread beyond India much later; beginning in the 1990s, a project to restore Ghatak's films was undertaken, and international exhibitions (and subsequent DVD releases) have belatedly generated an increasingly global audience. In the 2002 ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' critics' and directors' poll for |
Ghatak's work as a director also had an impact on many later Indian filmmakers, including those from the [[Bengali cinema|Bengali film industry]] and elsewhere. For example, [[Mira Nair]] has cited Ghatak as well as Ray as the reasons she became a filmmaker.<ref>{{cite web|title=Why we admire Ray so much|publisher=Naachgana|date=April 14, 2009|url=http://www.naachgaana.com/2009/04/14/why-we-admire-satyajit-ray-so-much|accessdate=2009-06-06}}</ref> Ghatak's impact as a director began to spread beyond India much later; beginning in the 1990s, a project to restore Ghatak's films was undertaken, and international exhibitions (and subsequent [[DVD]] releases) have belatedly generated an increasingly global audience. In a critics' poll of [[Films considered the best ever|all-time greatest films]] conducted by the [[Cinema of Asia|Asian film]] magazine ''[[Cinemaya]]'' in 1998, ''[[Subarnarekha (film)|Subarnarekha]]'' was ranked at #11 on the list.<ref>{{citation|title=The “Sight & Sound” of Canons|first=Donato|last=Totaro|journal=Offscreen Journal|publisher=[[Canada Council|Canada Council for the Arts]]|date=January 31, 2003|url=http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/canon.html|accessdate=2009-04-19}}</ref> In the 2002 ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' critics' and directors' poll for all-time greatest films, ''[[Meghe Dhaka Tara]]'' was ranked at #231 and ''Komal Gandhar'' at #346 on the list.<ref>{{cite web|title=2002 Sight & Sound Top Films Survey of 253 International Critics & Film Directors|publisher=Cinemacom|year=2002|url=http://www.cinemacom.com/2002-sight-sound.html|accessdate=2009-04-19}}</ref> In 2007, ''A River Named Titas'' topped the list of 10 best [[Cinema of Bangladesh|Bangladeshi films]], as chosen in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the [[British Film Institute]].<ref name="bfi">{{cite web|title=Top 10 Bangladesh Films|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|date=17 July 2007|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html|accessdate=2009-03-14}}</ref> |
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==Filmography== |
==Filmography== |
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===Feature films=== |
===Feature films=== |
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;Director & Screenwriter |
;Director & Screenwriter |
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*''[[Nagarik]] |
*''[[Nagarik]] (The Citizen)'' (1952) |
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*''[[Ajantrik]] |
*''[[Ajantrik]] (The Unmechanical, The Pathetic Fallacy)'' (1958) |
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*''[[Bari Theke Paliye]] |
*''[[Bari Theke Paliye]] (The Runaway)'' (1958) |
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*''[[Meghe Dhaka Tara]] |
*''[[Meghe Dhaka Tara]] (The Cloud-Capped Star)'' (1960) |
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*''Komal Gandhar |
*''Komal Gandhar (E-Flat)'' (1961) |
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*''[[Subarnarekha (film)|Subarnarekha]]'' (1962/1965) |
*''[[Subarnarekha (film)|Subarnarekha]]'' (1962/1965) |
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*''[[Titash Ekti Nadir Naam]] |
*''[[Titash Ekti Nadir Naam]] (A River Called Titash)'' (1973) |
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*''[[Jukti Takko Aar Gappo]] |
*''[[Jukti Takko Aar Gappo]] (Reason, Debate and a Story)'' (1974) |
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;Screenwriter |
;Screenwriter |
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*''[[Musafir (1957 film)|Musafir]]'' (1957) |
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*''[[Madhumati]]'' (1958) |
*''[[Madhumati]]'' (1958) |
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Died | February 6, 1976 | (aged 50)
Occupation(s) | Film maker and writer |
Ritwik Ghatak (Bengali: ঋত্বিক (কুমার) ঘটক, Rittik (Kumar) Ghôţok) (November 4 1925– February 6 1976) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker and script writer. Ghatak's stature among Bengali film directors is comparable to that of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.
Early life
Ritwik Ghatak was born in Dhaka in East Bengal (now Bangladesh). He and his family moved to Calcutta (now Kolkata) in West Bengal just before millions of other refugees from East Bengal began to flood into the city, fleeing the catastrophic Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of Bengal in 1947. Identification with this tide of refugees was to define his practice, providing an overriding metaphor for cultural dismemberment and exile that unified his subsequent creative work. The 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, which led to more refugees fleeing to India, was to also have a similar impact on his work.
Creative career
In 1948, Ghatak wrote his first play Kalo sayar (The Dark Lake), and participated in a revival of the landmark play Nabanna. In 1951, Ghatak joined the Indian People's Theatre Association ( IPTA ). He wrote, directed and acted in plays and translated Bertolt Brecht and Gogol into Bengali. In 1957, he wrote and directed his last play Jwala (The Burning).
Ghatak entered the film industry with Nemai Ghosh's Chinnamul (1950) as actor and assistant director. Chinnamul was followed two years later by Ghatak's first completed film Nagarik (1952), both major break-throughs for the Indian cinema.[1][2] Ghatak's early work sought theatrical and literary precedent in bringing together a documentary realism, a remarkable stylized performance often drawn from the folk theatre, and a Brechtian use of the filmic apparatus.
Ghatak's first commercial release was Ajantrik (1958), a comedy-drama film with science fiction themes. It was one of the earliest films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an automobile, as a character in the story.
Ghatak's greatest commercial success as a script writer was for Madhumati (1958), one of the earliest films to deal with the theme of reincarnation. It was a Hindi film directed by another Bengali filmmaker Bimal Roy. The film earned Ghatak his first award nomination, for the Filmfare Best Story Award.
Ritwik Ghatak directed eight full-length films. His best-known films, Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) (1960), Komal Gandhar (E-Flat) (1961), and Subarnarekha (1962), a trilogy based in Calcutta and addressing the condition of refugee-hood, proved controversial and the commercial failure of Komal Gandhar (E-Flat) and Subarnarekha prevented him from making features through the remainder of the 1960s. In all three films, he used a basic and at times starkly realistic storyline, upon which he inscribed a range of mythic references,especially of the Mother Deliverer, through a dense overlay of visual and aural registers.
Ghatak moved briefly to Pune in 1966, where he taught at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). During his year at FTII, he was involved in the making of two student films, viz., Fear and Rendezvous.
Ghatak returned to film making only in the 1970s, when a Bangladeshi producer financed the 1973 epic Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas). Making films became difficult for his poor health, due to extreme alcoholism and consequent diseases. His last film, and perhaps his most unusual, was the 'autobiographical' Jukti Takka ar Gappo (Reason, Debate And Story) (1974).He had a number of incomplete feature and short films in his credit.
He belonged to an illustrious family. His father Suresh Chandra Ghatak was a district magistrate and also a poet and playwright, mother's name was Indubala Devi. He was their 11th and youngest child. His elder brother Manish Ghatak was an acclaimed radical writer of his time, a professor of English and a social activist who was deeply involved with IPTA theatre movement in its heyday and later on headed the famous Tebhaga Andolan of North Bengal. Manish Ghatak's daughter is the legendary writer and activist Mahasweta Devi. Ritwik's wife Surama was a school teacher and his son Ritaban is a film-maker.
Impact and influence
At the time of his death (February 1976), Ghatak's primary impact would seem to have been through former students. Though his stint teaching film at FTII was brief, one-time students Mani Kaul, John Abraham, and especially Kumar Shahani (among many others), carried Ghatak's ideas and theories, which were further elaborated upon in his book Cinema And I, into the mainstream of Indian art film. Other students of his at the FTII included the acclaimed filmmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Adoor Gopalakrishnan.[3]
Ghatak stood entirely outside the world of Indian commercial film. None of the elements of the commercial cinema (singing and dancing, melodrama, stars, glitz) featured in his work. He was watched by students and intelligentsia, not by the masses. His students have also tended to work in the art cinema or independent cinema tradition.
Satyajit Ray, commonly held to be the greatest of the Bengali neo-realist directors, succeeded in creating an audience outside India during his lifetime and winning many prestigious international awards. Ghatak was not so fortunate. While he was alive, his films were appreciated primarily within India. 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 never released until after his death in 1977.[1][2] His first commercial release Ajantrik (1958) was also one of the earliest films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an automobile, as a character in the story, many years before the Herbie films.[4] Ghatak's Bari Theke Paliye (1958) also had many similarities to François Truffaut's later film The 400 Blows (1959), but Ghatak's film remained obscure while Truffaut's film went on to become one of the most famous films of the French New Wave. One of Ghatak's final films, A River Named Titas (1973), is one of the earliest films to be told in a hyperlink format, featuring multiple characters in a collection of interconnected stories, predating Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) by two years.
Ghatak's only major commercial success was Madhumati (1958), a Hindi film which he wrote the screenplay for. The film was one of the earliest to deal with the theme of reincarnation and is believed to have been the source of inspiration for many later works dealing with the theme of reincarnation in Indian cinema, Indian television, and perhaps world cinema. It may have been the source of inspiration for the American film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) and the Hindi film Karz (1980), both of which dealt with reincarnation and have been influential in their respective cultures.[5] Karz in particular was remade several times: as the Kannada film Yuga Purusha (1989), the Tamil film Enakkul Oruvan (1984), and more recently the Bollywood film Karzzzz (2008). Karz and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud may have also inspired the American film Chances Are (1989).[5] The most recent film to be directly inspired by Madhumati is the hit Bollywood film Om Shanti Om (2007), which led to the late Bimal Roy's daughter Rinki Bhattacharya accusing the film of plagiarism and threatening legal action against its producers.[6][7]
Ghatak's work as a director also had an impact on many later Indian filmmakers, including those from the Bengali film industry and elsewhere. For example, Mira Nair has cited Ghatak as well as Ray as the reasons she became a filmmaker.[8] Ghatak's impact as a director began to spread beyond India much later; beginning in the 1990s, a project to restore Ghatak's films was undertaken, and international exhibitions (and subsequent DVD releases) have belatedly generated an increasingly global audience. In a critics' poll of all-time greatest films conducted by the Asian film magazine Cinemaya in 1998, Subarnarekha was ranked at #11 on the list.[9] In the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll for all-time greatest films, Meghe Dhaka Tara was ranked at #231 and Komal Gandhar at #346 on the list.[10] In 2007, A River Named Titas topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films, as chosen in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute.[11]
Filmography
Feature films
- Director & Screenwriter
- Nagarik (The Citizen) (1952)
- Ajantrik (The Unmechanical, The Pathetic Fallacy) (1958)
- Bari Theke Paliye (The Runaway) (1958)
- Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) (1960)
- Komal Gandhar (E-Flat) (1961)
- Subarnarekha (1962/1965)
- Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titash) (1973)
- Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Reason, Debate and a Story) (1974)
- Screenwriter
Short films and documentaries
- The Life of the Adivasis (1955)
- Places of Historic Interest in Bihar (1955)
- Scissors (1962)
- Fear (1965)
- Rendezvous (1965)
- Civil Defence (1965)
- Scientists of Tomorrow (1967)
- Yeh Kyon (Why / The Question) (1970)
- Amar Lenin (My Lenin) (1970)
- Puruliar Chhau (The Chhau Dance of Purulia) (1970)
- Durbar Gati Padma (The Turbulent Padma) (1971)
Notes
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- ^ Chitra Parayath (08/11/2004). "Summer Viewing - The Brilliance Of Ritwik Ghatak". Lokvani. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
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(help) - ^ Carrigy, Megan (October 2003), "Ritwik Ghatak", Senses of Cinema, retrieved 2009-05-03
- ^ a b Doniger, Wendy (2005), "Chapter 6: Reincarnation", The woman who pretended to be who she was: myths of self-imitation, Oxford University Press, pp. 112-136 [135], ISBN 0195160169
- ^ Ashanti nags Om Shanti Om Mumbai Mirror, August 7, 2008.
- ^ Shah Rukh, Farah Sued: Writer Claims SRK stole his script for Om Shanti Om
- ^ "Why we admire Ray so much". Naachgana. April 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
- ^ Totaro, Donato (January 31, 2003), "The "Sight & Sound" of Canons", Offscreen Journal, Canada Council for the Arts, retrieved 2009-04-19
- ^ "2002 Sight & Sound Top Films Survey of 253 International Critics & Film Directors". Cinemacom. 2002. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ "Top 10 Bangladesh Films". British Film Institute. 17 July 2007. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
References
- Carrigy, Megan (October 2003), "Ritwik Ghatak", Senses of Cinema, retrieved 2009-05-03
External links
- Ritwik Ghatak at IMDb
- Interview with Ghatak at Indian Auteur
- at calcuttaweb
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- Biography
- Film Analysis
- Plot Summaries
- The relentless tragedy of Ritwik by Partha Chatterjee
- Kinship and History in Ritwik Ghatak by Moinak Biswas
- The Film We Accompany by Raymond Bellour
- Ritwik Ghatak-Reinventing the Cinema by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- A special issue on the Cinema of Ritwik Ghatak
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- Indian film producers
- Bengali film directors
- Indian film directors
- Bengali film actors
- Indian film actors
- Bengali writers
- Indian screenwriters
- Indian writers
- Film theorists
- Indian film score composers
- Indian People's Theatre Association people
- Bengali-language writers
- Kolkata culture
- University of Calcutta alumni
- People from Dhaka
- 1925 births
- 1976 deaths
- Film directed by Ritwik Ghatak