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Komal Gandhar

Movie"A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale"
Audience Score
57
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NR 2 hr 4 minMusic, DramaPartition Trilogy PosterPart of Partition Trilogy
Through the microcosmic perspectivising of a group of devoted and uncompromising IPTA workers, Ghatak with his signature style touches on varied issues of partition, idealism, corruption, the interdependence of art and life, the scope of art, and class-struggle.
StarringSupriya ChoudhuryAbanish BanerjeeAnil Chatterjee
DirectorRitwik Ghatak

Movie Details

Original Language:Bengali
Production Companies:Chitrakalpa
Movie Tags:
india

Partition Trilogy

Ritwik Ghatak was averse to the term “refugee problem”. In one of his interviews, he said, “I have tackled the refugee problem, as you have used the term, not as a ‘refugee’ problem. To me it was the division of a culture, and I was shocked”. This shock would give birth to a trilogy on the Partition – Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star), 1960; Komal Gandhar (E-Flat), 1961; and Subarnarekha (The Golden Thread), 1962. In them, he highlighted the insecurity and anxiety engendered by the homelessness of the refugees of Bengal; tried to convey how Partition struck at the roots of Bengali culture; and sought to express the nostalgia and yearning that many Bengalis felt for their pre-Partition way of life.