Saturday, June 11, 2016

Nagarik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1952)

(Reviewed 4/5 in October 2015 on letterboxd.com)


This was Ritwik Ghatak's Udayer Pathey minus all the embellishments that he hated in that film. On a more serious note, this film was a seminal effort in Ghatak's cinematic journey. His characteristic use of sound and the distorted emotional upheavals are all there to see in his first film. Moreover, his thematic concerns appear to be in their purest form in this film: showing the struggle and misery of contemporary life. The men and women of his country.

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