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No Cloud-capped Star, Ritwik

Through rare memories, family anecdotes, and cinematic history, Ratnottama Sengupta revisits the life and legacy of Ritwik Ghatak, revealing the man behind the legend. A Silhouette tribute in the master filmmaker’s birth centenary year.

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No Cloud-capped Star, Ritwik

Ritwik Ghatak: Ratnottama Sengupta blends personal recollections, family anecdotes, and cinema history to reveal the man behind the maestro.

Anger in his voice, authority in his words. Name: Ritwik

That's how Nabendu Ghosh remembered Ritwik Ghatak. Ratnottama Sengupta translates the memoirs of Ghosh from his autobiography.

Something Like an Autobiography: A Critical Reading of Komal Gandhar

Komal Gandhar, Ritwik Ghatak’s sublime cinematic attempt is also considered to be one of his "most intellectual” films.

Landscape of Exile: Individual and Cultural Alienation in Ritwik Ghatak’s Films

Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy focused on the pervasive sense of rootlessness that afflicts those displaced from their ancestral lands.

Riverine Stories: Titas and Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinematic Departure

Keeping Ghatak’s Titas Ekti Nadir Naam in focus, Madhuja explores if rivers enable us to understand stories and histories of decolonization

The Aesthetics of Fractured Dislocation in Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema

Despite the shadows of Partition repeatedly appearing as a motif in his Partition Trilogy, Ritwik Ghatak’s cinema transcended that to themes of dislocation.

Reason Ramblings and Redemption

A reading of Ritwik Ghatak and his alter ego Nilkantha in Jukti Takka Arr Gappo by Subha Das Mollick. Ritwik Ghatak@100 Silhouette Special Series

Satyajit, Ritwik – and the Renegade ‘Father’ Figure

In a brief critique, Amitava Nag looks at how Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak with their different socio-psychological conditionings deal with the 'father' figure in their very last film.

Purulia-r Chhau: A Critical Review of the Documentary by Ritwik Ghatak

In Puruliar Chhau documentary, Ritwik Ghatak explores the traditional heritage of Chhau, a popular mask dance of Eastern India.

Ritwik Ghatak: A Crusader Of The Rootless

Ritwik Ghatak’s films, remarkable for their lacerating quality and heightened form of realism are almost at loggerheads with Satyajit Ray’s lyricism.

Performativity and Politics: Ray and Ghatak

Satyajit Ray, in his characteristic swagger, put it down to the puerile nature of his native Bengali audience and the ‘backward, stupid and trashy’ quality of contemporaneous work in the Bengali film industry.

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