A River Called Titas
The Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s stunningly beautiful, elegiac saga concerns the tumultuous lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of the Titas River in pre-Partition East Bengal. Focusing on the tragic intertwining fates of a series of fascinating characters—in particular, the indomitable widow Basanti—Ghatak tells the poignant story of an entire community’s vanishing way of life. Made soon after Bangladesh became an independent nation, the elliptical, painterly A River Called Titas is a grand epic from a director who has had a devoted following for decades.
A River Called Titas was restored in 2010 by the Cineteca di Bologna /L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the Ritwik Memorial Trust, the National Film Archive of India, and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project. Additional film elements provided by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv. Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Kabari Choudhury
- Rajar Jhi
- Roushan Jamil
- Mother
- Prabir Mitra
- Kishore
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Tilakchand
- Rani Sarkar
- Mungli
- Sufia Rustam
- Udaytara
- Rosy Samad
- Basanti
- Golam Mostafa
- Ramprasad/Kader Ali
- M. A. Khair
- Basanti’s father
- Shafiq Islam
- Ananta
- Narayan Chakrabarty
- Moral
- Magan Sardar
- Sirajul Islam
Credits
- Director
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Written by
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Based on the novel by
- Advaita Malla Barman
- Executive producer
- Sanwar Murshed
- Producer
- Habibur Rahman Khan
- Producers
- Chowdhury Fayez Ahmed
- Director of photography
- Baby Islam
- Editors
- Basheer Hussain
- Editors
- Abu Taleb
- Editors
- Mahabubur Rahaman
- Original music
- Ustad Bahadur Khan
- Original music
- Hossein Khan
- Art director
- Munshi Mahiuddin
- Assistant directors
- Fakrul Hassan Bairagi
- Assistant directors
- Abdul Zalil Mintu
- Assistant directors
- Tamijuddin Rizvi
- Assistant directors
- Amjad Hossein
- Sound
- Amjad Hussain
- Lighting
- Nannu Mia
- Lighting
- Mohit Kiran
- Makeup
- Mohammad Shahjahan
- Makeup
- Rebati Das
- Singers
- Dheeraj Uddin Fakir
- Singers
- Rathindranath Ray
- Singers
- Nina Hamid
- Set photographer
- Sunil Aamin
