Rejecting the perception of Ghatak as merely a festival filmmaker, Mishra noted that films such as Meghe Dhaka Tara had connected with audiences in their time. Mishra said Ghatak’s cinema was rooted in the trauma of Partition and migration, but went beyond politics to address a deeper human condition. That lament runs through Ghatak’s work,” he said, adding that the filmmaker’s themes remain relevant amid contemporary patterns of displacement. “Every time you make a film, somewhere Ghatak is present,” Mishra said. Mishra dismissed attempts to pit Ghatak against contemporaries such as Satyajit Ray, noting that Ghatak himself had written one of the finest reviews of Pather Panchali.

Source: The Telegraph January 25, 2026 07:58 UTC