He never made films for money, and he used to see filmmaking as an important tool of mass media that could serve far reaching goals of change. Well, on Ritwik Ghatak’s birth anniversary, independent filmmaker Aneek Chaudhuri says for him
Ritwik Ghatak is life. He is someone who does not project the plastic nature on screen, rather tries to portray the reality as it is.
“I would strongly relate
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with Ghatak, at least for the way they have factually described things; both of them have been very close to my heart. Fortunately, I was very much influenced by Ghatak's excellence even in this era when materialism is governing the major part of the world.
However, I am still deeply hurt that he is not widely celebrated among the Commons. The reason lies underrated! Even while writing this piece, I cannot help myself imagining to be in the middle of a sanatorium with Nita consoled in her brother's arms. That's what the maestro has done and has compelled me to write the whole thing in present tense. He lives,” explains Aneek in an exclusive chat with ETimes.