Ritwik Ghatak
3 titles · parallel cinema
The partition of Bengal cut through Ghatak's life, and every film he made is about the people it displaced. The Cloud-Capped Star follows the daughter of a refugee family from East Pakistan who sacrifices everything to keep her family going on the outskirts of Calcutta. In The Golden Thread, an honest man leaves a refugee colony for a job at an iron foundry. A River Called Titas follows a fisherman whose bride is kidnapped on their wedding night.
Signature
- Partition and exile.
- Melodrama pushed to epic, mythic scale.
- Sound and music used as shock.
- Women carrying families on their backs.
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