Patethic Fallacy
1958 · Movie · 102 min. · India
The plot of Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy) revolves around Bimal and his battered taxi, an old Chevrolet, he calls Jagaddal. Because he treats his car as a living being, many consider Bimal to be mad. Said Ritwik about the film: "You can call my protagonist, Bimal, a lunatic, a child, or a tribal. At one level they are all the same. They react to lifeless things almost passionately. This is an ancient, archetypal reaction....The tribal songs and dances in Ajantrik describe the whole cycle of life - birth, hunting, marriage, death, ancestor worship, and rebirth. This is the main theme of Ajantrik, this law of life."
Direction Ritwik Ghatak
Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Ganga Pada Basu · Satindra Bhattacharya · Tulsi Chakraborty · Anil Chatterjee · Shriman Deepak · Kajal Gupta · Gyanesh Mukherjee · Keshto Mukherjee · Sita Mukherjee
Soundtrack Ali Akbar Khan
Screenplay Ritwik Ghatak · Subodh Ghosh
Cinematography Dinen Gupta
Original title Ajantrik (Patethic Fallacy)
6.5
39 votes (FilmAffinity)
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