Tag Archives: Ritwik Ghatak’s films

Komal Gandhar, Ritwik Ghatak’s sublime cinematic attempt is also considered to be one of his "most intellectual” films. This is probably because, Komal Gandhar...

Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy focused on the pervasive sense of rootlessness that afflicts those displaced from their ancestral lands and foregrounds their...

In this essay Madhuja Mukherjee asks whether Ghatak’s films hold a mirror to theories of geography, physical maps, natural habitats, and consequently, to the subject of ‘decoloniality’....

Despite the shadows of Partition repeatedly appearing as a motif in his Partition Trilogy (Meghe Dhaka Tara, Subarnarekha and Komal Gandhar), Ritwik Ghatak’s...

A reading of Ritwik Ghatak and his alter ego Nilkantha in Jukti Takka Arr Gappo