Posts Tagged ‘Ritwik Ghatak’

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    Ritwik Ghatak and Ajantrik
    I was under the spotlight, and people generally behind the camera don’t really like the spotlight. Well OK, Hitchcock was an exception. The saleslady at the Music World in Calcutta’s College Street was breathing down my neck, asking me to “peek waan, saer” from a limited selection of ten or eleven Bangla DVD’s, so that we could pay, and release...
    by ArSENik at September 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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    The Requiem Or the Dream ?
    “What man of you, having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” Luke 15:4 Whether it’s Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” or “The Zahir“, the recurrent dream, the pursuit of a goal has been a winner’s...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at May 27th, 2009 at 02:05 pm
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    To Do Away With Desire
    Adoor Gopalakrishnan in his mise-en-scene conglomerate, Naalu Pennangal (2007) presents the sad plight of women strangulated by the patriarchal societal structure, where a woman is deprived off her erotic drive, marital bliss and her choice to beget children. Based on the short stories by Thakazi Shivshankar Pillai, portrayed in a deceptively simple yet effective...
    by Sulakshana Biswas at February 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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    Ritwik Ghatak, the lone voice
    iView Author: Siddhartha Banerjee (Kolkata, India) EMAIL: sidban1 [at] gmail [dot] com Title: Ritwik Ghatak, the lone voice Ghatak’s films were an artist’s rebellious, painful, naked howl that cuts through the entire fa'§ade of so called decorative and bourgeois art; screaming with a brave and indifferent ‘I deny’. Creativity, more than the art-form,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 9th, 2008 at 07:08 am
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    Always Being Born!
    iView Author: Nirad B. Bhattacharjee (Mumbai, India) EMAIL: k niradbaran [At]gmail [Dot]com Always Being Born The Indian new wave started almost a decade later than the Italian new wave with Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali‘. This film ignited the imagination of a wave of budding filmmakers. Two other Bengali directors followed Ray and soon they became the...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 9th, 2008 at 02:05 am
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