The Visionary Who Gave Cinema a Voice of Exile and Belonging
Author, playwright, and filmmaker Ritwik Kumar Ghatak was born on November 4, 1925, in Narail (now in Bangladesh), to Rai Bahadur Suresh Chandra Ghatak, a district magistrate, and Indubala Devi. During the 1940s, his family, originally from Dhaka, relocated—first to Berhampore, and later to Kolkata. These years of displacement and unrest would come to define Ghatak’s creative consciousness.
