Winds From The East: An Interview with Ritwik Ghatak.
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak, being a refugee himself, wanted to communicate his trauma and identity crisis caused by the Partition'47 through his films; all his films failed to reach the audience of his time. After decades of his demise, his films remain as indictment of a time the people of Bengal wanted to overlook.
The career of director, writer, and actor Ritwik Ghatak was one of constant struggle—against a public that, per his contemporary Satyajit Ray, “largely ignored” his films; against a society that had lost its way amid rampant modernization; and against a national cinema whose conventions he broke time and again. He only completed eight fiction feature films during his lifetime, but each.
Ritwik Ghatak was born on November 4, 1925 in Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India as Ritwik Kumar Ghatak. He was a director and writer, known for The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Madhumati (1958) and Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo (1974). He was married to Surama Ghatak.He died on February 6, 1976 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s films are seamless, exquisitely rendered, conventional narratives that aim for the kind of psychological insights prized by 19th century novelists, Ghatak’s are ragged, provisional, intensely.
The Other Partition: A Study of Partition of Bengal through Ritwik Ghatak’s The Road, and Dibyendu Palit’s Alam’s Own House. The fundamental question which strikes us when it comes to Diasporic and Post-Colonial Literature is that are the two irrevocably interrelated? Can Partition Literature be a sub-section within the larger umbrella term of Diasporic Literature? Vijay Mishra in his.
Ritwik Ghatak, the famous filmmaker, is known all over India and abroad for some of the greatest films made in India, which set the scene for future film making. But his short stories works of miniaturist art in their own right are less known. The stories collected in this volume speak well for themselves as much as they remind his audience of another facet of his versatility which was.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has paid homage to the Bengali filmmaker and script-writer Ritwik Ghatak on the occasion. “Homage to Ritwik Ghatak on his death anniversary,” Ms Banerjee tweeted. Ghatak was one of the forerunners of Parallel Cinema, who in his rather short 50-year lifespan brought to the Indian film industry a range of movies driven by realism and his sociopolitical outlook.