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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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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 Nilkantha Bagchi
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.
A River Called Titas (1973)
, 2h39Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Prabir Mitra, Golam Mustafa, Chetana Das, Kobori Sarwar, Abul Hayat
Roles Tilakchand
Rating71%
A fisherman, Kishore, marries a young girl accidental when he visits a nearby village. After their wedding night (during which the couple is almost too shy to speak), she is kidnapped on the river. Kishore became mad. She fights with the bandits, jumps into the river and is saved by some strange villagers. But she does not know her new husband's name or what he looks like, she only remembers the name of his village. Ten years pass before she attempts to find him with their son, who sees his mother as a goddess. Some residents of Kishore's village refuse to share food with her and her son because of the ever-present threat of starvation. A young widow whose name is Basanthi giving consideration to the mother and child. Kishore was the lover of Basanthi on childhood. Director Ghatak appears in the film as a boatman, and Basanti's story is the first of several melodramatic tales.
A River Called Titas (1973)
, 2h39Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Prabir Mitra, Golam Mustafa, Abul Hayat
Roles Tilakchand
Rating71%
Une jeune mariée est enlevée par des pirates. Elle réussit à s'évader : une communauté de pêcheurs d'un village situé sur les rives de la Titas (Bengale oriental) la recueille et l'adopte.
Subarnarekha (1965)
, 2h19Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Abhi Bhattacharya, Bijon bhattacharya, Madhabi Mukherjee, Ritwik Ghatak, Gita Dey, Jahar Ray
Roles Music teacher
Rating73%
The film tells the story of Ishwar Chakraborty (Abhi Bhattacharya), a Hindu refugee from East Pakistan after the 1947 partition of India. He goes to West Bengal with his little sister Sita (Indrani Chakrabarty) where he tries to start a new life. In a refugee camp, they see the abduction of a low-caste woman and Ishwar takes her little son Abhiram (Sriman Tarun) with him. He gets a job at a factory in the province, near the river Subarnarekha.
The Uprooted (1950)
, 1h57Directed by Nemai Ghosh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Shobha Sen
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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, 2hDirected by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Calcutta. Neelkhanta, un écrivain réfugié du Bangladesh, ayant œuvré pour la réunification, sombre dans l'alcool. Sa femme et son fils l'abandonnent. Privé de domicile, il vagabonde en compagnie d'un jeune chômeur, d'une réfugiée et d'un ancien professeur. Assis dans les squares et les parcs, ceux-ci discutent de l'avenir de l'Inde et de problèmes artistiques. Neelkhanta se décide pourtant à revoir sa femme dans le village où elle exerce le métier d'institutrice. La campagne est en proie à des heurts entre policiers et militants naxalites. Au cours d'un affrontement, Neelkhanta est malencontreusement abattu.
The Citizen (1977)
, 2h7Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Kali Banerjee, Anil Chatterjee, Shobha Sen
Rating78%
Ramu, a fresh graduate is searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Kolkata. The mother is yearnful of older times when the family used to live in a better house, but she bears her suffering quietly, for the most part. The father is myopic and full of cynicism for he does not share the idealistic aspirations of his two children that better times will come. The light of Ramu's life is his girlfriend Uma, who lives in an equally precarious situation with her sister Shephali and her mother. Jatin is an even poorer minor character living near Uma's dwelling who Ramu avoids because he cannot help the former out financially. To make ends meet, Ramu's mother takes in Sagar, a poor chemist, as a paying guest. Ramu does not get a job and cannot pay rent even with the meagre money that he gets from Sagar and is insulted by the landlord. Ultimately the family is evicted.
Reason, Debate and a Story (1977)
, 2hDirected by Ritwik Ghatak
Genres Drama
Actors Tripti Mitra, Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chowdhury, Utpal Dutt
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.
A River Called Titas (1973)
, 2h39Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Prabir Mitra, Golam Mustafa, Abul Hayat
Rating71%
Une jeune mariée est enlevée par des pirates. Elle réussit à s'évader : une communauté de pêcheurs d'un village situé sur les rives de la Titas (Bengale oriental) la recueille et l'adopte.
A River Called Titas (1973)
, 2h39Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Bangladesh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Prabir Mitra, Golam Mustafa, Chetana Das, Kobori Sarwar, Abul Hayat
Rating71%
A fisherman, Kishore, marries a young girl accidental when he visits a nearby village. After their wedding night (during which the couple is almost too shy to speak), she is kidnapped on the river. Kishore became mad. She fights with the bandits, jumps into the river and is saved by some strange villagers. But she does not know her new husband's name or what he looks like, she only remembers the name of his village. Ten years pass before she attempts to find him with their son, who sees his mother as a goddess. Some residents of Kishore's village refuse to share food with her and her son because of the ever-present threat of starvation. A young widow whose name is Basanthi giving consideration to the mother and child. Kishore was the lover of Basanthi on childhood. Director Ghatak appears in the film as a boatman, and Basanti's story is the first of several melodramatic tales.
My Lenin (1970)
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Rating16%
Subarnarekha (1965)
, 2h19Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Abhi Bhattacharya, Bijon bhattacharya, Madhabi Mukherjee, Ritwik Ghatak, Gita Dey, Jahar Ray
Rating73%
The film tells the story of Ishwar Chakraborty (Abhi Bhattacharya), a Hindu refugee from East Pakistan after the 1947 partition of India. He goes to West Bengal with his little sister Sita (Indrani Chakrabarty) where he tries to start a new life. In a refugee camp, they see the abduction of a low-caste woman and Ishwar takes her little son Abhiram (Sriman Tarun) with him. He gets a job at a factory in the province, near the river Subarnarekha.
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
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
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.