The screening of Ritwik Ghatak's documentary Amar Lenin and his classic film Komal Gandhar at a government-run school in Kolkata on February 10 was allegedly cancelled. The cancellation was ...

This shock would give birth to a trilogy on the Partition – Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star), 1960; Komal Gandhar (E-Flat), 1961; and Subarnarekha (The Golden Thread), 1962. In them ...

This shock would give birth to a trilogy on the Partition – Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star), 1960; Komal Gandhar (E-Flat), 1961; and Subarnarekha (The Golden Thread), 1962. In them ...

A film that marries realism with musical overtones, Komal Gandhar tells the story of two theatre troupes navigating post-Partition Bengal. Through its central characters, Ghatak explores fractured ...

‘Komal Gandhar’ and ‘Subarnarekha’ (1962) both deal with the aftermath of thePartition in 1947, though this was his most optimistic film. The film explores three themes: the dilemma of the ...