A Filmmaker. A Screenwriter. An actor. A playwright. A Film Educator. A Pioneer of Parallel Cinema in India.
To celebrate 100 years of Ritwik Ghatak’s cinematic mastery, the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2025 will be screening Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) and Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas).
Ghatak’s cinema reshaped the language of Indian film, transforming personal pain into timeless, political art that focused on the lives of ordinary people, their pain and injustice. He was deeply affected by the Partition of Bengal in 1947, and this theme appears in almost all his films. His ideas and writings on film have become important subjects of study and research.
