Prof Anindya Sengupta highlights how Ghatak’s films capture the emotional aftermath of Partition and portray Nita’s struggle ...

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 ...

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

Auteur Ritwik Ghatak completely reinvented the language of cinema, discarding traditional storytelling methods to create something deeply original, says noted filmmaker Ashoke Vishwanathan.

Auteur Ritwik Ghatak completely reinvented the language of cinema, discarding traditional storytelling methods to create something deeply original, says noted filmmaker Ashoke Vishwanathan.

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

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 ...

Amongst the great trinity of Bengali Cinema, Ritwik Ghatak was the youngest, the other two being Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen. He lived a short and reckless life, burning it on both ends. His passion ...

Kolkata: What would Ritwik Ghatak, the chronicler of Partition trauma, have made of SIR? Ghatak's centenary is being celebrated at a time when Bengal .

At Chhayanaut’s Ramesh Chandra Dutta Memorial Hall on Sunday, nostalgia met reverence as artists, activists, and admirers gathered to celebrate the birth centenary of filmmaker Ritwik Kumar Ghatak and ...

The extraordinary evolution of the legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak captured in his short stories penned over two decades ...

The 31st Kolkata International Film Festival honors Ritwik Ghatak's centenary with screenings of his films and a special ...