Ritwik Ghatak's classic films, Amar Lenin and and Komal Gandhar were denied screening in Kolkata schools due to political ...

‘Komal Gandhar’ and ‘Subarnarekha’ (1962) both deal with the aftermath of thePartition in 1947, though this was his most optimistic film. KOLKATA: A school in South Kolkata was forced to ...

Indian filmmakers could have done a lot to awaken society’s sleeping conscience to the tribal experience. Ritwik Ghatak, who turns 100 this year, was an exception. He made many worthwhile attempts to ...

The festival will have centenary tributes to legendary filmmakers Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor, and Ritwik Ghatak and popular Kannada actor K.S. Ashwath. BIFFes is also set to screen the restored version ...

Ritwik Ghatak, Tapan Sinha, Arundhuti Devi, and the 125th birth anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Jibanananda Das. The 48th International Kolkata Book Fair also plans to celebrate their ...

I think it is a cultural routine. The kind of literature Bengal has produced for centuries, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, all of them have adapted/worked with short stories. So, it is in our ...

One of my main focuses or obsessions was this contradiction that exists in India like it comes from, let's say, even (Ritwik Ghatak's 1960 classic) Meghe Dhaka Tara of a woman who is supporting ...

"Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Bresson, G Aravindan, Ritwik Ghatak and Kenji Mizaguchi are some of the directors whose work made me realise that I wanted to make films like that," said Hegde.

Nyapada was a regular at Paradise Cafe on Rashbehari Avenue, in south Kolkata, where Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Salil Chowdhury and other stalwarts had a circle of adda growing around them. Nyapada ...

However, he quotes Editor Mahfuz Anam's reaction to ... lines from Taslima Nasrin, a vignette from Ritwik Ghatak, a couple of poems by Sufia Kamal, a brief description of the holud ceremony ...