Ajantrik (1958)
- Original title
- অযান্ত্রিক
- Directed by
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A taxi driver in rural Bengal develops a deep bond with his old battered car treating it like a living companion. The story shows their daily adventures and the driver's unusual relationship with the machine.
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What happens
Ajantrik (known internationally as The Unmechanical, The Mechanical Man or The Pathetic Fallacy) is a 1958 Indian Bengali film written and directed by Ritwik Ghatak. 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. The film was considered for a special entry in the Venice Film Festival in 1959. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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