Ritwik Ghatak
Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright, and film theorist, a seminal figure of Bengali cinema whose work—especially the Partition trilogy Meghe Dhaka Tara, Komal Gandhar, and Subarnarekha—explored displacement and social trauma; he also taught at FTII and wrote influential essays on cinema.
Books
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1. Rows And Rows Of Fences
A collection of essays, lectures, and interviews that lays out a passionate, politically charged philosophy of cinema, intertwining aesthetics with the lived trauma of Partition and the struggles of the displaced; it examines editing, sound, performance, and music with bracing clarity while insisting on the filmmaker’s responsibility to confront injustice and preserve collective memory.