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Ritwik Ghatak
Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (listenⓘ; 4 November 1925 – 6 February 1976)[3] was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.[4] Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality, partition and feminism. He won the National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo[5] and Best Director's Award from Bangladesh Cine Journalist's Association for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for Arts in 1970.[6][7]
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[edit]Ritaban Ghatak, his son, is also a filmmaker[8] and is involved in the Ritwik Memorial Trust. He has restored Ritwik's Bagalar Banga Darshan, Ronger Golam and completed his unfinishe
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Tapan Sinha and the Triumvirate of Bengali Cinema
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September 28, 2021 | bygd Amitava Nag
Amitava Nag’s The Cinema of Tapan Sinha, An Introduction book provides a succinct introduction to the cinema of Tapan Sinha and the significant place he holds in Bengali and, indeed, Indian cinema. With characteristic erudition, the author explores Sinha’s deep roots in the Bengali cultural climate, mainly music and literature, and how they shaped his cinematic berättande. For anyone interested in understanding the works of an underrated and often-neglected auteur, The Cinema of Tapan Sinha, An Introduction is the perfect place to uppstart. Silhouette presents an excerpt from a chapter in the book.
Tapan Sinha and Satyajit Ray
Most serious discussions on Bengali cinema uppstart and end with the holy trinity of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. This fryst vatten regrettable because in the process
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Tapan Sinha The last of the Mohicans
No Bengali film aficionado can forget "Kabuliwallah", "Khudhito Pashan", "Atithi", "Haatey Bajarey" and "Sagina Mahato". The list goes on. So, when the helmer of these films Tapan Sinha died in Kolkata last Thursday at the age of 84, it brought curtains down on the career of the last of the Mohicans of Bengali cinema.
For decades, the intelligentsia in Bengal never looked beyond the troika of Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen but the masses have all along recognised Sinha as an equally powerful storyteller, like his favourite novelist Charles Dickens, dealing with the issues of the common man, during a career spanning over four decades and making 41 films, 19 of which won national awards and laurels in the international festival circuit in London, Venice, Moscow and Berlin.
An avid follower of American directors like William Wyler and John Ford, Sinha (born in Kolkata in 1924), was inspired by Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities" and