vsevolod pudovkin

Many believe the seed of partition-oriented films was reaped at that time when Ritwik Ghatak appeared in Nemai Ghosh’s critically acclaimed ‘Chinnamul’ (The Uprooted) in 1950.

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

The ’80s saw a slump even though there were some seminal works by Gautam Ghose, Aparna Sen, Sandip Ray and Rituparno Ghosh. Commercial cinema, relying heavily on remakes, raked in the moolah though critical acclaim was hard to come by.