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Ritwik Ghatak
Dacca, East Bengal, British India
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak was a Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered…
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Ritwik Kumar Ghatak was a Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality. Although their roles were often adversarial, they were ardent admirers of each other's work and, in doing so, the three directors charted the independent trajectory of parallel cinema, as a counterpoint to the mainstream fare of Hindi cinema in India. Ghatak received many awards in his career, including National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo 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.
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1977
The Citizen
Movie Director
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1975
Ramkinkar Baij
Movie Himself
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1974
Reason, Debate and a Story
Movie Nilkantha Bagchi
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1973
A River Called Titas
Movie Tilakchand
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1971
Where the River Padma Flows
Movie Director
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1970
Puruliar Chhau
Movie Director
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1970
My Lenin
Movie Writer
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1970
The Question
Movie Director
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1968
Heerer Prajapati
Movie Writer
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1968
The Knave of Trumps
Movie Director
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1967
Scientists of Tomorrow
Movie Director
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1965
The Golden Thread
Movie Music teacher
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1965
Portrait of a Princess
Movie Screenplay
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1965
Fear
Movie Story
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1964
Rendezvous
Movie Supervising Technical Director
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1963
Ustad Alauddin Khan
Movie Screenplay
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1961
A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale
Movie Director
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1960
The Cloud-Capped Star
Movie Director
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1958
Madhumati
Movie Writer
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1958
Runaway
Movie Director
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1958
Ajantrik
Movie Director
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1957
Oraon
Movie Director
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1957
Musafir
Movie Screenplay
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1955
Places of Historic Interest in Bihar
Movie Director
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1955
The Life of the Adivasis
Movie Director
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1950
The Uprooted
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