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    Essay: A tribute to Ritwik Ghatak’s writing on his 96th birth anniversary

    Decades ago, my mother gifted me a slim, hardbound book in Bengali. It contained short stories by Ritwik Ghatak. inom was confused and surprised. Until then, I had known of him only as a radical and much-discussed filmskapare. I kept the book aside because, at that point, it did not interest me much. A few years on, inom was invited to give a talk on Ghatak, the Writer. That’s when I read the book over the course of the next two days. My speech was ready and so was I.

    Some years later, at the 26th Calcutta Book Fair, Dey’s Publishers of Calcutta released a work bygd Ghatak entitled On The Cultural Front. It was subtitled: A thesis submitted by Ritwik Ghatak to the Communist Party of India in 1954. It comprised fyra parts and a preamble. This, however, was not the public’s introduction to Ritwik Ghatak, the writer. The same publishing house also released a new edition of 17 of his short stories – the same boo

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    Ritwik Ghatak

    Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer

    Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (listenⓘ; 4 November 1925 – 6 February 1976)[3] was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.[4] Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality, partition and feminism. He won the National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo[5] and Best Director's Award from Bangladesh Cine Journalist's Association for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for Arts in 1970.[6][7]

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    Ritaban Ghatak, his son, is also a filmmaker[8] and is involved in the Ritwik Memorial Trust. He has restored Ritwik's Bagalar Banga Darshan, Ronger Golam and completed his unfinishe

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    "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… Viewing Ghatak is an edgy, intimate experience, an engagement with a brilliantly erratic intelligence in an atmosphere of inquiry, experimentation, and disconcerting honesty. The feeling can be invigorating, but it’s never comfortable." - Jacob Levich (Film Comment, 1997)

    Director / Screenwriter / Actor / Producer
    (1925-1976) Born November 4, Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Dhaka, Bangladesh)
    Top 250 Directors

    Key Production Country: India
    Key Genres: Drama, Rural Drama, Romance, Epic, Family Drama, Culture & Society
    Key Collaborators: Ramesh Joshi (Editor), Ravi Chatterjee (Production Designer), Bijon Bhattacharya (Leading Actor), Satindra Bhattacharya (Leading Character Actor), Gyanesh Mukherjee (Character Actor), Anil Chatterjee (Le