Titash Ekti Nadir Naam
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| A poster for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. | |
| Directed by | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Produced by | Habibur Rahman Khan |
| Story by |
Ritwik Ghatak (screenplay) Advaita Malla Burman (the original novel) |
| Starring | Golam Mustafa Kabori Sarwar Rowshan Jamil Prabir Mitra Rosy Samad Rani Sarkar Fakrul Hasan Bairagi Farid Ali |
| Music by | Ritwik Ghatak (music theme) Ustad Bahadur Khan |
| Cinematography | Baby Islam |
| Edited by | Basheer Hussain |
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Release date
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July 27, 1973 |
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Running time
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159 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Titas Ekti Nadir Naam (Bengali: তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম), or A River Called Titas, is a 1973 Bengali film directed by Ritwik Ghatak. The movie was based on a novel by the same name, written by Adwaita Mallabarman. The movie explores the life of the fishermen on the bank of the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, in undivided Bengal, now Bangladesh.
Rosy Samad, Golam Mostafa, Kabori, Prabir Mitra, and Roushan Jamil acted in the main roles. The shooting of the movie took a toll on Ghatak's health, as he was suffering from tuberculosis at the time.
Alongside Satyajit Ray's Kanchenjungha (1962) and Mrinal Sen's Calcutta 71 (1972), Titash Ekti Nadir Naam is one of the earliest films to resemble hyperlink cinema, featuring multiple characters in a collection of interconnected stories, predating Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
In 2007, A River Called Titas topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films, as chosen in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute.
A fisherman, Kishore, marries a young girl accidentally when he visits a nearby village. After their wedding night, Kishore's young bride is kidnapped on the river. On losing his wife, Kishore becomes mad. Meanwhile, his young bride fights with the bandits, jumps into the river and is saved by some villagers. Unfortunately, the young bride knows nothing about her husband, she doesn't even know her husband's name. The only thing she remembers is the name of the village Kishore belongs to. Ten years later, she attempts to find Kishore with their son. Some residents of Kishore's village refuse to share food with her and her son because of threat of starvation. A young widow Basanthi helps the mother and child. Later it is turns out that Kishore and Basanthi were childhood lovers . Director Ghatak appears in the film as a boatman, and Basanti's story is the first of several melodramatic tales.
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