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

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.

quirkypoignantoffbeatgentleearthynostalgicwhimsicalhumanistic

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)

Trailer

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