On the delivery centenary of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, the thirty first Kolkata Worldwide Movie Pageant has mounted an exhibition that includes his memorabilia on the most important pageant venue. The famend filmmaker was born on 4 November 1925 and died on February 6, 1976, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on the age of fifty. He was a famend Indian filmmaker and author, identified for movies like The Cloud-Capped Star and A River Known as Titas.
Ritwik Ghatak exhibition at KIFF
The exhibition at Nandan Lobby, named ‘Centenary Tribute Ritwik Ghatak: The Subaltern Voice’ was inaugurated by veteran actress Madhabi Mukherjee, Ghatak’s main girl in Subarnarekha (1965), his son Ritban, artist Subhaprasanna Bhattacharya, amongst others, on November 7 and can proceed until November 13.
The exhibition options collectable pictures like Ghatak sharing body with one other iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray, authentic hand-written letters by him, uncommon books authored by him, the unique censorship certificates of his cult work Subarnarekha, film booklets of his movies summarising the storyline (which was a apply throughout industrial Bengali movie releases these days), a KIFF official stated. In a single letter, Ghatak opens up his pains and wounds to his spouse throughout his stint at FTII, Pune.
Visibly moved by the displays, Ritoban stated his father was but to “get the popularity he deserves on the earth,” the way in which another movie geniuses representing completely different genres are identified and feted, and there needs to be extra dialogue and analysis on his life and works by fans and specialists for critical research.
Madhabi, in her feedback, described Ghatak as “way more than a filmmaker, a thinker who projected the socio-political and cultural adjustments in his occasions and beforehand.
Amongst Ghatak’s movies, his trilogy on partition and displacement— ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’, ‘Komal Gandhar’, and ‘Subarnarekha ‘- are being screened on the pageant.
As a part of the tribute to Ghatak, there shall be a dialogue ‘Ritwik Ghatak Memorial Dialog’ attended by Adoor Gopalakrishnan on November 12 and felicitation of actors, college students and technicians of Ghatak on November 13.
(by way of inputs from PTI)