One of India’s most accomplished film directors, Ritwik Ghatak passed away on February 6, 1976.
Here is a quiz on famous Bengali film directors and their works.
Daily Quiz | on bangla movies
Original poster of Jukti Takko R Gappo [Reason, Debate and a Story]A film by Ritwik Ghatak, 1974
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1 / 5 | Ghatak’s best-known works include his trilogy on Partition and its effects on the people of Bengal. The title of which film is loosely borrowed from a line in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ and details the sufferings of a young woman whose poignant last words are “Grandfather, I want to live”?
2/5 | Ghatak’s contemporary Satyajit Ray directed 36 films. Which film made by him, which is both an analytical and scathing critique of the market economy, was based on a book by a writer who was given the post of “Sheriff” of Kolkata and later won the Sahitya Akademi Award in March 2021 was awarded. His masterpiece ‘Ek Ek Ekshi’?
Answer: ‘Jana Ranyu’ written by Mani Shankar Mukherjee
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3/5 | Actor Dhritiman Chatterjee starred in two films by Ray and another writer Mrinal Sen, which depicted the period of the Naxalite movement in Kolkata. Ray’s version was ‘Rival’, a film that mixed realism and surrealism. Which was the third film of Sen’s own Calcutta trilogy made in 1973?
4/5 | Ajmer-born Bengali director known for several Hindi films with a “middle-class sensibility”. One of his most famous works is the Hindi remake of Sidney Lumet’s classic, Twelve Angry Men. His name and film.
5 / 5 | One of the more poignant films made by this director, who is a contemporary of the director in question 4, includes the Jaya Bhaduri-Amitabh Bachchan starrer, with Bhaduri playing a young woman suffering from pernicious anaemia. Name the film and director.
