page_title: List of works by Ritwik Ghatak
hierarchical_section_title: List of works by Ritwik Ghatak
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of young Ritwik Ghatak, an Indian (Bengali) film director. This image was published before 1950, when Ghatak was an active Communist and IPTA member.
context_page_description: Ritwik Kumar Ghatak is mainly known as a filmmaker but, he was also a playwright poet and writer of short stories. Ritwik Kumar Ghatak started his creative career as a poet and a fiction writer. Then he began writing for the theater and became involved with Gananatya Sangha and IPTA. Later he moved to film direction. He also wrote more than 50 essays on film. Satyajit Ray wrote that these essays "cover every possible aspect of the cinema".
context_section_description: Ritwik Kumar Ghatak is mainly known as a filmmaker but, he was also a playwright poet and writer of short stories. Ritwik Kumar Ghatak started his creative career as a poet and a fiction writer. Then he began writing for the theater and became involved with Gananatya Sangha and IPTA. Later he moved to film direction. He also wrote more than 50 essays on film. Satyajit Ray wrote that these essays "cover(ed) every possible aspect of the cinema".
caption: Ritwik Ghatak, at a young age
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