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My father, Kumar Roy, was at home on stage
June 05, 2026 8:46 am
Kumar Roy’s directorial journey began in 1979 with Shudraka’s classical Sanskrit play ‘Mrichhakatika’, in which he starred as Charudutta
Ritwik Ghatak films restored in 4K; BFI to host retrospective in London marking his birth centenary
June 03, 2026 1:00 pm
Ritwik Ghatak, one of the most influential filmmakers in Indian cinema, is known for films that explored themes of Partition, displacement, and social change.
Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak were not rivals but close friends, says veteran filmmaker
December 17, 2025 8:44 pm
140 films, 10 screens, Rs 4 crore budget: All eyes on PIFF as best of Indian and world cinema get ready for audiences
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
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