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Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak were not rivals but close friends, says veteran filmmaker
December 17, 2025 8:44 pm
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At the heart of a film about Partition and exile, a river called Subarnarekha
December 13, 2025 3:01 am
On one level, ‘Subarnarekha’ is about the ‘refugee problem’; a recognition of how livelihoods, homes, identities, and human connections in the old country are lost and must be recreated. This is equally relevant today
‘Nagarik’ — a practice in understatement, an ode to Ritwik Ghatak’s unceasing protest
December 12, 2025 4:55 pm
While Satyajit Ray reached the pinnacle in his first venture, for Ghatak, it took six years and the experience of making three films — Nagarik, Ajantrik and Bari Theke Paliye — to create his outstanding Meghe Dhaka Tara
Ritwik Ghatak’s cinema offered lessons in historian’s craft
November 18, 2025 7:14 am
His narratives challenged both naive optimism and the elitism of Bengali culture, urging audiences to confront the fragility of belonging.
Ritwik Ghatak and the cinematic memory of Partition
November 17, 2025 2:44 pm
Far from depicting Partition as a mere historical event, Ghatak examined its ongoing, everyday effects through stories of uprooted families, dispossessed women, and lost childhoods, using melodrama not for escapism but as a radical reflection of social wounds
At 100, Ritwik Ghatak is so contemporary
November 05, 2025 7:46 am
If Ghatak’s lifetime was marked by failure, the failure was heroic.
Ritwik Ghatak, the rebel we need to remember
November 04, 2025 9:22 pm
As Ghatak's birth centenary celebrations put the spotlight back on him, the perfect tribute would be to examine what he stood for; how he questioned the status quo, blended the personal and the political
Ritwik Ghatak, his brilliance, tragedy and relevance
November 04, 2025 8:23 am
The fears and anxieties explored in his films continue to resonate in his centenary year
Depicting historical trauma requires sensitivity. Unfortunately, filmmakers like Vivek Agnihotri fail to recognise that
August 23, 2025 3:52 pm
The responsible way to talk about trauma requires one to adopt a constructive lens, not to rabble-rouse. Otherwise, the film ends up being nothing more than a dog whistle
Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali declared the best Indian film of all time by FIPRESCI; see top 10 list here
October 21, 2022 12:05 pm
The India chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has chosen the top 10 Indian films of all time. See the list here.
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