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Ritwik Ghatak is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director and Music Bangladais born on 4 november 1925 at Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Ritwik Ghatak (Bengali: ঋত্বিক কুমার ঘটক, Ritbik Kumar Ghôţôk, About this sound listen ; 4 November 1925 – 6 February 1976) 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 parallel cinema, as a counterpoint to the mainstream fare of Hindi cinema in India. Ghatak received many awards in his career, including National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo 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.
Malgré sa volonté de « toucher le plus de gens possible », son idéalisme, son refus des compromis et son utilisation particulière des outils cinématographiques, ne lui amèneront pas le succès. Même en Occident, sa mise en scène, d'une culture indienne « pure », demeurera hermétique au public. Il mourra dans la plus grande pauvreté, alcoolique et tuberculeux.
Toutefois, ses films font encore l'objet d'un culte de la part de nombreux jeunes cinéastes indiens. N'oublions pas non plus que Ritwik Ghatak fut, en 1966-67, directeur du Film and Television Institute of India et qu'il dispensa un enseignement fort peu conformiste, dont restèrent marqués certains de ses élèves, tels Mani Kaul et Kumar Shahani.
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Ritwik Ghatak
Birth name Ritwik Kumar Ghatak
Nationality Bangladesh
Birth 4 november 1925 at Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Death 6 february 1976 (at 50 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri
Nationality Bangladesh
Birth 4 november 1925 at Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Death 6 february 1976 (at 50 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri
Biography
Issu de l'aristocratie du Bengale Oriental, Ghatak est obligé de subir l'exode vers Calcutta avec sa famille, à la Partition de 1947. Cet exil forcé marquera son œuvre profondément, matérialisé par la figure du fleuve Padma (le nom du Gange au Bengale oriental). Après des études à l'université de Calcutta, Ritwik Ghatak fait du journalisme puis du théâtre avec l'Indian's People Theatre Association. Il traduit l'œuvre de Bertolt Brecht en bengali. De cette époque, date également son adhésion aux idées communistes. Après avoir été l'assistant de Manoj Bhattacharya, il devient metteur en scène de cinéma.Malgré sa volonté de « toucher le plus de gens possible », son idéalisme, son refus des compromis et son utilisation particulière des outils cinématographiques, ne lui amèneront pas le succès. Même en Occident, sa mise en scène, d'une culture indienne « pure », demeurera hermétique au public. Il mourra dans la plus grande pauvreté, alcoolique et tuberculeux.
Toutefois, ses films font encore l'objet d'un culte de la part de nombreux jeunes cinéastes indiens. N'oublions pas non plus que Ritwik Ghatak fut, en 1966-67, directeur du Film and Television Institute of India et qu'il dispensa un enseignement fort peu conformiste, dont restèrent marqués certains de ses élèves, tels Mani Kaul et Kumar Shahani.
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Filmography of Ritwik Ghatak (18 films)
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Ajantrik (1958)
, 2hDirected by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles
Actors Kali Banerjee, Tulsi Chakraborty, Anil Chatterjee
Roles Writer
Rating74%
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. The film shows episodes from his life in the industrial wasteland, delivering people from one place to another.
Musafir (1957)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama
Actors Dilip Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Bipin Gupta, Durga Khote, Nirupa Roy
Rating77%
For any young married couple, moving into their new house is a very special feeling. The feeling gets more special if the young couple has eloped and married. Something similar happened with Shakuntala (Suchitra Sen) and her husband. The landlord (David) helps the couple move to the rented house. The young couple moves to this house which incidentally is the main protagonist of the film. While Shakuntala makes the house into a beautiful home, her husband gets busy with work. She meets the neighboring tea vendor (Mohan Choti) and meets the next door auntie whose favourite pastime is to gossip about developments in others' homes. The couple experiences the sound of violin in the night and ask the tea-stall-owner about it in the morning, who tells that it is being played by a mad man-Pagla Babu.Since, the couple had eloped Shakuntala wanted that her parents-in-law accept her as their daughter-in-law. This is what happens and her in laws somehow search the young couple and they are more than happy to meet Shakuntala. Finally, Shakuntala and her husband go with them and vacate the house. In between Shakuntala grows some seeds in the garden.
Producer
Komal Gandhar (1961)
, 2h14Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Abhi Bhattacharya, Bijon bhattacharya, Anil Chatterjee, Supriya Choudhury, Gita Dey, Madhabi Mukherjee
Roles Producer
Rating71%
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
, 2h6Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gita Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Gita Dey, Abhi Bhattacharya
Roles Producer
Rating77%
Après la Partition des Indes, une famille de réfugiés du Bengale survit misérablement à la périphérie de Calcutta. Le père, instituteur à l'origine, est paralysé par une fracture et ne peut plus travailler. La fille aînée, Nita, qui donne des cours particuliers et tente simultanément de continuer ses études, est la seule à ramener un peu d'argent à la famille. Alors que Sanat est amoureux d'elle, elle renonce à l'épouser pour continuer à assurer la subsistance de ses proches. C'est finalement sa sœur cadette qui s'unit à Sanat. Le fils cadet, ouvrier d'usine, est victime d'un terrible accident du travail. Nita se démène pour sauver son frère, qui sera heureusement guéri… mais elle ressent bientôt les symptômes d'une tuberculose avancée. Shankar, le frère aîné, devenu une vedette célèbre, lui assure un séjour en montagne, mais il est déjà trop tard.
Director
The Uprooted (1950)
, 1h57Directed by Nemai Ghosh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Shobha Sen
Roles Assistant Director
Rating76%
The film is based on a story of Swarnakamal Bhattacharya. Depicting the physical pain and crisis, the film is about the partition of Bengal and the flow of refugees from East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) into India. The story of the film begins in a village of East Bengal where people (Hindus and Muslims) leave peacefully. Govinda and Sumati are husband wife and they are about to have a child. But, the partition forces Hindu people to leave their ancestral village. So, they become refugee. They don't find any location or shelter in Calcutta and eke out their daily lives in temporary shelters in and around Sealdah railway station. Along with millions of refugees the family has to face untold misery in big city.
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Reason, Debate and a Story (1977)
, 2hDirected by Ritwik Ghatak
Genres Drama
Actors Tripti Mitra, Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chowdhury, Utpal Dutt
Roles Music
Rating69%
In this film Ghatak plays role of Nilkantha Bagchi, an alcoholic, disillusioned broken intellectual, in the character's own words "a humbug". His wife leaves him because of his insufferable alcoholism. After losing his wife and being forced from his home, he wanders through the countryside and meets unusual folks along the way. Nilkantha meets Bongobala, who was driven away from Bangladesh and does not have any shelter in Kolkata; he gives her shelter. He meets Jagannath Bhattacharjee, a village school teacher of Sanskrit. Jagannath's school was closed after political killings and he came to Kolkata in search of a job. Nilkantha meets Naxalites whom he describes as the "frame of Bengal", but misguided, successful and unsuccessful at the same time. The film, adventurous and revolutionary, is an exceptional mix of images that challenge the limits of narrative storytelling.