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Ajantrik

1958 film

Ajantrik

Directed by	Ritwik Ghatak
Written by	Subodh Ghosh (short story) Ritwik Ghatak (story elaboration)
Starring	Kali Banerjee Shriman Deepak Kajal Gupta Keshto Mukherjee
Cinematography	Dinen Gupta
Edited by	Ramesh Joshi
Music by	Ali Akbar Khan
Production company	L. B Films International
Release date	23 May 1958 (1958-05-23)
Running time	104 min.
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Ajantrik (known internationally as The Unmechanical, The Mechanical Man or The Pathetic Fallacy)^[1] is a 1958IndianBengali film written and directed by revered parallel filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.^[2] The film is adapted from a Bengali short story of the same name written by Subodh Ghosh.

A comedy-drama film, Ajantrik is one of the earliest Indian films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an automobile, as a character in the story. It achieves this through the use of sounds recorded post-production to emphasize the car's bodily functions and movements

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Ritwik Ghatak

Ritwik Ghatak (India, 1925), who as a young man had traveled around Bengal in an itinerant theater troupe, directed Nagarik (1952), not released until after his death in 1977, Ajantrik (1955), whose protagonist is a car, Bari Theke Paliye (1958), the "partition" trilogy of Meghe Dhaka Tara/ The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), set among Bengali refugees, Komal Gandhar/ E Flat (1961), in which a Bengali refugee devotes himself to itinerary theater, and Subarnarekha/ The Golden Thread (produced in 1962 but not released until 1965), as well as Titash Ekti Nadir Naam/ A River Named Titas (1973) and Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo/ Reason, Debate and Story (1974, released only after his death), which follows the journey of three people (an alcoholic failed artist, a young refugee girl, and a poor teacher of Sanskrit).

The ideological commitment is explicit in Ghatak's films, a Bengali Marxist who devoted much attention to the plight of the East Bengali people.

The picaresque adventure of the taxi driver of Ajantrik with his "human" car through the trouble

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Ritwik Ghatak

Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer

Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (listen^ⓘ; 4 November 1925 – 6 February 1976)^[3] was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.^[4] Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality, partition and feminism. He won the National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo^[5] and Best Director's Award from Bangladesh Cine Journalist's Association for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for Arts in 1970.^[6]^[7]

Education

Family

Ritaban Ghatak, his son, is also a filmmaker^[8] and is involved in the Ritwik Memorial Trust. He has restored Ritwik's Bagalar Banga Darshan, Ronger Golam and completed his unfinished documentary on Ramkinkar.

Ritaban has made a film titled Unfinished Ritwik. He is working on a