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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.
Original Release
07/27/1973
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rosy Samad | Basanti |
Kabori Sarwar | Rajar Jhi |
Rawshan Zamil | Basanti's mother / Mother |
Rani Sarkar | Mungli |
Sufia Rustam | Udaytara |
Prabir Mitra | Kishore / Kishore Chand Mulya Verman |
Shafikul Islam | Ananta |
Golam Mustafa | Ramprasad / Kader Mian |
Ritwik Ghatak | Tilakchand |
Fakrul Hasan Boiragi | Nibaran / Nibaran Kundu |
Directors
Writers
Ritwik Ghatak, Advaita Malla Burman
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rosy Samad | Basanti |
Kabori Sarwar | Rajar Jhi |
Rawshan Zamil | Basanti's mother / Mother |
Rani Sarkar | Mungli |
Sufia Rustam | Udaytara |
Prabir Mitra | Kishore / Kishore Chand Mulya Verman |
Shafikul Islam | Ananta |
Golam Mustafa | Ramprasad / Kader Mian |
Ritwik Ghatak | Tilakchand |
Fakrul Hasan Boiragi | Nibaran / Nibaran Kundu |
Banani Choudhury | Moral ginni / Morol Ginni |
Farid Ali | Keshtachandra |
Narayan Chakraborty | Moral / The Village Head |
Chetana Das | |
Abul Hayat | Thakur |
Sirajul Islam | Magan Sardar |
Abul Khair | Basanti's Father |
Khalil | Sadar Miah |
Golam Rabbani |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Habibur Rahman Khan | Producer |