Ritwik Ghatak
Directing
Birthday: November 4, 1925 (age 50)
Died: February 6, 1976
Departments: Directing, Writing, Sound, Production, Art, Crew
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…
Acting
Ramkinkar Baij1975• Himself
Reason, Debate and a Story1974• Nilkantha Bagchi
A River Called Titas1973• Tilakchand
The Golden Thread1965• Music teacher
The Uprooted1950
Crew
The Citizen1977• Screenplay
Ramkinkar Baij1975• Production Design
Reason, Debate and a Story1974• Director
A River Called Titas1973• Writer
Where the River Padma Flows1971• Director
My Lenin1970• Writer
Puruliar Chhau1970• Director
Heerer Prajapati1968• Writer
The Golden Thread1965• Director
Rajkanya1965• Screenplay
Ustad Alauddin Khan1963• Screenplay
A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale1961• Screenplay
The Cloud-Capped Star1960• Director
Ajantrik1958• Writer
Madhumati1958• Writer
Runaway1958• Director
Musafir1957• Screenplay
Oraon1957• Director
The Life of the Adivasis1955• Director
Places of Historic Interest in Bihar1955• Director
The Uprooted1950• Assistant Director