Ritwik Ghatak
Directing
Born: 1925-11-04 · Dacca, East Bengal, British India
Died: 1976-02-06
Biography
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak 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
🎬 Movies (26)
The Citizen
1977
Director
Ramkinkar Baij
1975
Director
Reason, Debate and a Story
1974
Director
A River Called Titas
1973
Director
Where the River Padma Flows
1971
Director
My Lenin
1970
Director
Puruliar Chhau
1970
Director
The Question
1970
Director
Heerer Prajapati
1968
Writer
The Knave of Trumps
1968
Director
Scientists of Tomorrow
1967
Director
The Golden Thread
1965
Director
Portrait of a Princess
1965
Screenplay
Fear
1965
Director
Rendezvous
1964
Supervising Technical Director
Ustad Alauddin Khan
1963
Director
A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale
1961
Director
The Cloud-Capped Star
1960
Director
Ajantrik
1958
Director
Madhumati
1958
Writer
Runaway
1958
Director
Musafir
1957
Screenplay
Oraon
1957
Director
The Life of the Adivasis
1955
Director
Places of Historic Interest in Bihar
1955
Director
The Uprooted
1950