Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973)

Original title

তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম

Directed by

Ritwik Ghatak

Genre

drama film

Country

Bangladesh, India

Runtime

2h 38m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set in a fishing community along the Titas River in pre-independence India. The film follows a woman who raises her child alone after being rescued from bandits, which challenges her village's strict rules about marriage and motherhood.

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What happens

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam, or A River Called Titas, is a 1973 Bengali language film directed by Ritwik Ghatak and produced as a joint collaboration between India and Bangladesh. It is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Adwaita Mallabarman. Set in pre-independence India, the film follows the Malo fishing community along the Titas River. After rescuing a woman abducted by river bandits, her decision to raise a child alone challenges the community’s rigid traditions surrounding marriage, motherhood, and social order. Rosy Samad, Golam Mostafa, Kabori, Prabir Mitra, and Roushan Jamil starred in lead roles. Ghatak, then suffering from tuberculosis, saw his health decline during filming. Along with Satyajit Ray's Kanchenjungha (1962) and Mrinal Sen's Calcutta 71 (1972), Titas Ekti Nadir Naam ranks among the earliest examples of hyperlink cinema—featuring multiple protagonists in interwoven narrative threads, reminiscent of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game (1939) and preceding Robert Altman's Nashville (1975). In 2002, the film topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films in the audience and critics' polls by the British Film Institute. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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