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- Birth nameRitwik Kumar Ghatak
- Ritwik Ghatak was born on November 4, 1925 in Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Dhaka, Bangladesh]. He was a director and writer, known for Reason, Debate and a Story (1977), Musafir (1957) and The Cloud-Capped Star (1960). He was married to Surama Ghatak. He died on February 6, 1976 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
- SpouseSurama Ghatak(? - February 6, 1976) (his death, 3 children)
- Ghatak is regarded as one of the best Indian directors of the 20th Century, together with Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen. Despite that, he is still largely unknown in and outside of India. Fortunately, this is slowly changing as his films become accessible again and can now be studied in detail.
- Ghatak was a professor at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), and among his students were John Abraham, Kumar Shahani and Mani Kaul.
- Ghatak wrote numerous short stories, plays, and articles about cinema.
- His later years were affected by severe alcoholism.
- Biography in John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985," pp. 387-392. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- In relation to man and his society, experiment can not dangle on void. It must belong. Belong to man.
- Filmmaking is not an esoteric thing to me. I consider filmmaking to start with a personal thing. If a person does not have a vision of his own, he cannot create.
- Rabindranath Tagore once said: "Art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful." Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey.
- I believe in committed cinema. I mean, commitment in the broadest sense of the term.
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