Jukti Takko Aar Gappo
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Jukti Takko Aar Gappo DVD cover
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| Directed by | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Produced by | Rita Productions, Ritwik Ghatak |
| Written by | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Starring | See below |
| Music by | Ustad Bahadur Khan |
| Cinematography | Baby Islam |
| Edited by | Amalesh Sikdar |
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120 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Jukti tôkko aːr gôppo, English: Reason, Debate and a Story) is a 1974 Bengali film directed by Ritwik Ghatak.Jukti Takko Aar Gappo was Ritwik Ghatak's last film. The film won National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974.
The film is considered technically superior to other films of that era due to its camera work. As Ghatak's last film, it is placed in the league of Jean Cocteau's Testament of Orpheus and Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders's noted documentary film, Lightning Over Water.
In this film Ghatak plays Nilkantha Bagchi, an alcoholic, disillusioned intellectual, in the character's own words "a humbug". After losing his wife and being forced from his home, he wanders through the countryside and meets unusual people along the way, including Bongobala, who was driven away from Bangladesh and does not have any shelter in Kolkata; he gives her shelter. He also meets Jagannath Bhattacharjee, a village school teacher of Sanskrit. Jagannath's school was closed after political killings and he came to Kolkata in search of a job. Nilkantha meets Naxalites whom he describes as the "frame of Bengal": misguided, successful and unsuccessful at the same time.
The film deals with various ideas and themes. Set against the backdrop of the first Naxalite wave of rebellion in India, the film is considered to be Ghatak's autobiographical film, an anti-climax. Ghatak himself explained, "In it [Jukti Takko Aar Gappo] the political backdrop of West Bengal from 1971 to 1972 as I saw it has been portrayed. There is no ideology. I saw it from a point of view of not a politician. I am not supposed to please a political ideology". Ghatak was aware of a complete breakdown of moral values around him, especially among the younger generation. He tried to portray these issues in this film (and also in his unfinished film Sei Vishnupriya). Ghatak, both in real life and in this film, tried to find some meaning for the political and cultural turmoil overtaking his country.
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