Ajantrik

Bijoy Chowdhury’s ‘The Barefoot Journey’ won awards at Nandan's festival. Meghnath’s ‘In Search of Ajantrik’ won the Satyajit Ray Golden Award. Chowdhury's 2014 documentary on Tarakeswar pilgrims, edited by Arindam Sardar with sound by Korak Mishra, features voice-overs and visuals of Che Guevara t-shirts and festive themes.

Bengali classics, including some directed by Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak, may soon feature on the list of 50 Indian films that will be restored by experts from abroad.

As the city gears up to host the Ritwik Ghatak Film Festival, two of the icon's cult films are locked in a curious battle of ownership.

KOLKATA: They constitute some of India’s best scientific brains who would soon head out to work in multinational firms across the world. But if science is their life, literature and music are their passion. And it’s a feeling that their jeans clad, jet-setting peers have begun to loath their mother tongue and neglect their own culture - that has spurred these young engineers into action.

Ritwik Ghatak’s works are still a testament to the social, personal and political turmoil he faced in life.

Each of his films represents a landmark achievement, movingly reflecting the social realities of a nation trying to revise its identity in the aftermath of British colonial rule.

After a long gap, public film screenings will be back at the 2015 edition of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). Indian language classics will be screened for the public at Azad Maidan in Panaji from November 21 to 29, 2015.

The Kerala chapter of the Federation of Film Societies of India is organizing an online festival of films of Ritwik Ghatak on the occasion of his 95th birth anniversary.

Kharaj Mukherjee is adding another feather to his cap. The actor will soon be directing a play Bipasha'r Jonmodin, written by, Sunil Ganguly and adapted for stage by Somnath Boral.

For the first time, Kolkata will simultaneously witness the centenary celebrations of a legend at two separate music and film festivals.

These are some important depictions of a time and a society where moral values had a deep resonance with the status of the mother.

'Nirbaak' explores love and emotions between people and living or non-living things which can’t speak in a traditional way.

Did you know Ritwik Ghatak was the co-writer of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Musafir’?

A restored version of Guru Dutt's "Pyaasa" will be the opening film in the 'Indian Classics' section at the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2015 to be held in Goa.