d. Ritwik Ghatak
c. India
y. 1961
description:
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IMDB... 7.7 (33)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 1360MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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Reason, Debate and a Story
Pathetic Fallacy
d. Ritwik Ghatak
c. India
y. 1958
description:
"Unfortunately for its director and screenwriter, this internationally praised film did very poorly at the box-office. In the story, the poor Bengali Bimal has an unusually intimate relationship with his broken-down old taxi and goes so far as to give it the name Jagoddal. The other residents of town hate to ride in it because it is so old, but are amazed that it is still running. For the viewer, as well as Bimal, the taxi is alive, returning Bimal's affection by running on almost no gasoline (among other things). For his part, Bimal will tolerate no disparaging remarks about Jagoddal and routinely ejects passengers who essay them. This tender relationship is upset when Bimal meets a young woman whom he falls for and the jealous taxi tries to come between him and the girl." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.3 (53)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1360MB
qlty: DVD
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The Golden Thread
d. Ritwik Ghatak
c. India
y. 1965
description:
"Indian director Ritwik Ghatak (who died in poverty in 1976) creates a dramatic tale of a struggle to survive in this story of a young man's determination to support his sister and a little friend. Forced by desperate conditions, Isvar goes to Calcutta to look for work and brings along his sister Sita and a young boy, Abirham. Isvar finds work at a steel mill near the Subarnarekha River on the outskirts of the city and raises the two children there. When Sita and Abirham grow up they fall in love and marry, and then move into the city. Communication dwindles between Isvar and his two former charges, so when Abirham dies in an accident and Sita turns to prostitution to survive, Isvar has no idea what has happened until it is too late." (AMG)
IMDB... 8.3 (67)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1360MB
qlty: DVD
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A River Called Titas
The Citizen
d. Ritwik Ghatak
c. India
y. 1952
description:
"Nagarik is an extremely remarkable film especially given the year in which it is made. Had it been made at the end of the fifties, one would be tempted to see the influence of Camus' L'Etranger, of Osborne's Look Back in Anger or the plays of Harold Pinter but Nagarik pre-dates all of them. Verismo certainly but not quite in the manner of Satyajit Ray's later Pather Panchali (1955) because Nagarik is highly stylised and has very much the feel cinematographically of a film noir. Although nothing like it in theme, it has stylistic echoes of Kamal Amrohi's 1949 Hindi film Mahal(and uses narration in a way very typical of Amrohi). Few films have ever better depicted the despair of poverty, the debilitating pattern of hopes defeated, of humiliations endured. Yet for all that it remains an engaged film (there are echoes too of Eisenstein, of Gorky, of the Renoir of Les Bas-Fonds). It is little less than criminal that this film remains so little known." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 6.5 (22)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1370MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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