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Ritwik Ghatak (writer)
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1977 (India)
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Existential realism
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(Credited cast) | Ajit Banerjee | ... | Sagar |
| Kali Bannerjee | ... | The Father |
| Gangapada Basu | ... | Land Lord |
| Satindra Bhattacharya | ... | Ramu |
| Umanath Bhattacharya | ||
| Parijat Bose | ... | Violinist |
| Anil Chatterjee | ||
| Ketaki Dutta | ... | Uma |
| Anil Ghosh | ||
| Mumtaz Ahmed Khan | ... | Sushanta |
| Keshto Mukherjee | ... | Jatin Babu |
| Shriman Pintoo | ... | Pintoo |
| Prabhadevi | ... | The Mother |
| Sova Sen | ... | Seeta |
| Geeta Shome | ... | Shefali |
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The Citizen
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127 min
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Ritwik Ghatak's directorial debut.
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Nagarik is an extremely remarkable film especially given the year in which it is made. Had it been made at the end of the fifties, one would be tempted to see the influence of Camus' L'Etranger, of Osborne's Look Back in Anger or the plays of Harold Pinter but Nagarik pre-dates all of them. Verismo certainly but not quite in the manner of Satyajit Ray's later Pather Panchali (1955) because Nagarik is highly stylised and has very much the feel cinematographically of a film noir. Although nothing like it in theme, it has stylistic echoes of Kamal Amrohi's 1949 Hindi film Mahal(and uses narration in a way very typical of Amrohi). Few films have ever better depicted the despair of poverty, the debilitating pattern of hopes defeated, of humiliations endured. Yet for all that it remains an engaged film (there are echoes too of Eisenstein, of Gorky, of the Renoir of Les Bas-Fonds). It is little less than criminal that this film remains so little known.