Directing
Ritwik Ghatak
Born November 4, 1925 · Dacca, East Bengal, British India
Died February 6, 1976 · aged 50
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 depiction of social reality. Although their roles were often adversarial, they were ardent admirers of each other's work and, in doing so, the three directors charted the independent trajectory of para…
Known For
A River Called Titas · 1973A River Called Titas
★ 6.71973
MovieDrama
An in-depth look at the lives and struggles of a fishing community living by the River Titas in Bangladesh after the Partition of India in 1947.
Heerer Prajapati · 1968Heerer Prajapati
★ 8.01968
MovieDrama
the story of a lost butterfly-shaped diamond brooch that belongs to an elderly woman, and its passage through unexpected hands
The Cloud-Capped Star · 1960The Cloud-Capped Star
★ 7.21960
MovieDrama
A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
The Golden Thread · 1965The Golden Thread
★ 6.41965
MovieDrama
After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.
Ajantrik · 1958Ajantrik
★ 6.91958
MovieDramaComedy
Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye.
Musafir · 1957Musafir
★ 7.01957
MovieDrama
The stories of three sets of people, linked by their connection to an old suburban house in Calcutta- An orphaned young woman who desperately wants her husband to make up with his estranged parents so that she may belong to a family once more, a wayward young man desperate to find a job to support his aged father and his widowed sister-in-law, and a shadowy neighbourhood ‘madman’
Madhumati · 1958Madhumati
★ 6.91958
MovieDramaRomance
Two men take shelter in a derelict mansion situated in the countryside during a storm. One of the men suddenly becomes aware that he once visited this mansion in a past life; he recounts a story about when he was Anand, a painter, who fell in love with a tribal girl named Madhumati.
A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale · 1961A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale
★ 6.31961
MovieDramaMusic
Set in 1950s Calcutta against the partition of India, the plot follows two rival factions born out of the divided leadership of the radical IPTA theater movement. Amidst their intense creative differences, a romance develops between two uprooted refugees, Bhrigu and Anusuya.
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