Author Parichay Patra

Parichay Patra

Parichay Patra has recently completed his PhD on the Indian New Wave cinemas of the 1970s from the Dept. of Film & Screen Studies, Monash University. He has co-edited a couple of volumes on Indian cinemas and is currently in the process of co-editing a collection of essays on Lav Diaz.

In Defence of A River Called Titas (Ritwik Ghatak, 1973)

March 2017

Cinémathèque Annotations on Film

Ghatak’s women rarely confront his uncannily mobile camera in Titas Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas, 1973), they suffer patiently, are violently put asunder, and die. On that fateful day of the...