21 minutes of pure revolutionary fire from a master in exile.
The film brings to the screen the determination of the common man of Bangladesh to stand up to tyranny and win his priceless liberty back.
Direction
Ghatak's fragmented, fever-dream editing mirrors national trauma.
Sound
Hemanta Mukherjee's score weeps and rages simultaneously.
Director
Ritwik Ghatak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ghatak shot this secretly in 1971 while hospitalized, smuggling footage out to support Bangladesh's liberation war.
The title references the Padma river dividing Bengal — Ghatak's entire career obsessed with Partition's invisible scar.
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