Fear (1965) is a 35 mm short Hindi film directed by legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. In 1964-65 Ritwik created this documentary for the acting department of Pune Film Institute. Mainly the students of Pune Film Institute participated in this film. Director Subhash Ghai, and actor Asrani then students of that institute acted in this film.
Calcutta. Neelkhanta, un écrivain réfugié du Bangladesh, ayant œuvré pour la réunification, sombre dans l'alcool. Sa femme et son fils l'abandonnent. Privé de domicile, il vagabonde en compagnie d'un jeune chômeur, d'une réfugiée et d'un ancien professeur. Assis dans les squares et les parcs, ceux-ci discutent de l'avenir de l'Inde et de problèmes artistiques. Neelkhanta se décide pourtant à revoir sa femme dans le village où elle exerce le métier d'institutrice. La campagne est en proie à des heurts entre policiers et militants naxalites. Au cours d'un affrontement, Neelkhanta est malencontreusement abattu.
, 2h Réalisé parRitwik Ghatak GenresDrame ActeursTripti Mitra, Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chowdhury, Utpal Dutt Note69% In this film Ghatak plays role of Nilkantha Bagchi, an alcoholic, disillusioned broken intellectual, in the character's own words "a humbug". His wife leaves him because of his insufferable alcoholism. After losing his wife and being forced from his home, he wanders through the countryside and meets unusual folks along the way. Nilkantha meets Bongobala, who was driven away from Bangladesh and does not have any shelter in Kolkata; he gives her shelter. He meets Jagannath Bhattacharjee, a village school teacher of Sanskrit. Jagannath's school was closed after political killings and he came to Kolkata in search of a job. Nilkantha meets Naxalites whom he describes as the "frame of Bengal", but misguided, successful and unsuccessful at the same time. The film, adventurous and revolutionary, is an exceptional mix of images that challenge the limits of narrative storytelling.
, 2h4 Réalisé parRitwik Ghatak OrigineInde GenresDrame ThèmesFilms pour enfants ActeursKali Banerjee, Jahar Ray, Bijon bhattacharya, Jayanta Chattopadhyay Note80% Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person and with the realization that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.
, 2h Réalisé parRitwik Ghatak OrigineInde GenresDrame, Comédie dramatique ThèmesTransport, Automobile ActeursKali Banerjee, Tulsi Chakraborty, Anil Chatterjee Note74% Ranchi (frontière du Bengale et du Bihar). Bimal, un chauffeur de taxi irascible et excentrique, entretient une relation quasi amoureuse avec sa vieille voiture déglinguée, une Chevrolet modèle 1920, qu'il a appelée Jagaddal, que l'on pourrait traduire du bengali par "Inamovible". Cette voiture n'est d'ailleurs pas semblable aux autres, elle peut être jalouse, surtout lorsque son conducteur veut porter secours à une jeune femme...