Ghatak was the poet of our cinema. He was born in the year when his favourite filmmakers, Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chapin, had come out with their films, Battleship Potemkin and The Gold Rush, ...

Writer-director Ritwik Ghatak’s films stand out for their stark depictions of social and cultural displacement. We piece together the portrait of Indian cinema’s fierce visionary — a filmmaker driven ...

In a world grown more chaotic, atomised, and close to breaking point, Ritwik Ghatak’s cinema feels newly legible. What once ...

The film lover’s conventional view is ‘what if’. What if Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik, completed in 1952 but unreleased till his death, was released before Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali in 1955? Would the ...

“Kolkata feels like home,” said legendary filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, addressing a packed audience at the 31st Kolkata ...