The Citizen (1952)
January 1, 1952Release Date
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Satindra Bhattacharya
Ramu Bagchi
Prabhadevi
The Mother
Sova Sen
Seeta Bagchi
Ketaki Dutta
Uma
Geeta Shome
Shefali
Ajit Banerjee
Sagar
Kali Bannerjee
The Father
Bulbul Bhattacharya
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Nagarik (Bengali: নাগরিক), also spelled as Nagorik (transl. The Citizen), was the first feature-length film directed by legendary Indian director Ritwik Ghatak. Completed in 1952, it preceded Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali as perhaps the first example of an art film in Bengali cinema, but is deprived of that honor, since it was released twenty-four years later, after Ghatak's death. On 20 September 1977, it finally premiered at the New Empire theatre in Kolkata, India. Ritwik Ghatak directed only eight feature films, but is generally regarded as one of the auteurs of Indian cinema and virtually unsurpassed as a creator of powerful imagery and epic style by directors such as Satyajit Ray and of transcendental power and extraordinariness by critics such as Derek Malcolm.