Ritwik Ghatak

thumb|150px|Ritwik Ghatak's young age photo Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (1925–1976) was an Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality. Quotes Film-making is not an esoteric thing to me. I consider film-making – to start with – a personal thing. If a person does not have a vision of his own, he cannot create. Ghatak Ritwik Cinema and I 1987 Ritwik Memorial Trust 65 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. Ghatak Ritwik Cinema and I 1987 Ritwik Memorial Trust 75 In relation to man and his society, experiment can not dangle on void. It must belong. Belong to man. Ghatak Ritwik Cinema and I 1987 Ritwik Memorial Trust 45 I believe in committed cinema. I mean, commitment in the broadest sense of the term. Ghatak Ritwik Cinema and I 1987 Ritwik Memorial Trust 15 External links Category:Film directors from India Category:Screenwriters from India Category:1976 deaths Category:1925 births