Ritwik Ghatak

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Four filmmakers and activists from Bangladesh and India have been selected for the Ritwik Ghatak Honorary Awards this year.

Shubhankar Bhowmick’s upcoming film ‘Alokkhye Ritwik’, a biopic of Ritwik Ghatak, sees singer-actor Silajit Majumder playing the iconic filmmaker. The film which promises to reveal many untold stories of Ritwik will also see Paayel Sarkar playing Ritwik Ghatak's wife Surama Ghatak. Shotting for the film has already started in South Kolkata.

Did you know Ritwik Ghatak was the co-writer of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Musafir’?

Ritwik Ghatak’s works are still a testament to the social, personal and political turmoil he faced in life.

A portion of Ritwik Ghatak’s ancestral home now stands as a makeshift cycle garage at the Rajshahi Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital. The incident has already received criticism in Bangladesh and they are already distributing memorandums and planning to form human chains calling for immediate action.

It raised a few eyebrows during its release as Ritwik Ghatak’s name was absent on the credits section.

Samhita Ghatak, elder daughter of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, passed away early morning on Monday. She was 60.

Ghatak’s works are still a testament to the social, personal and political turmoil he faced in life. But how many of you know he had directed a documentary?

The ancestral home of the renowned filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, was demolished, causing dismay among film admirers. Ghatak's house, previously suggested to be preserved as a heritage site, was destroyed amid a wave of unrest. Efforts are being made to identify and hold accountable those responsible for this act.

In the third episode, we will discuss Ritwik Ghatak’s one of the most underrated films ‘Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo’, a cinematic autobiography of Ghatak himself.

The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) can now boast of having almost the entire collection of master filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s works after the recent acquisition of his three unfinished Bengali films.

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.

Many believe the seed of partition-oriented films was reaped at that time when Ritwik Ghatak appeared in Nemai Ghosh’s critically acclaimed ‘Chinnamul’ (The Uprooted) in 1950.

a film archivist looking for movie posters at a scrap shop suddenly came across a treasure trove of extremely rare photographs of music legend Ravi Shankar along with a poem written by the revolutionary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.