Reason, Debate and a Story

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo

Autobiographical last film – and a critically intricate commentary on contemporary Bengal.

  • Director

    Ritwik Ghatak

  • With

    Ritwik Ghatak, Tripti Mitra, Shaonli Mitra, Bijon Bhattacharya

  • India 1974. 120min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

Reason, Debate and a Story is a powerful exercise in auto-fiction, with Ghatak himself taking the lead role as a washed-up, alcoholic intellectual journeying through 1970s Bengal, measuring his own personal and political failures against the Naxal Movement and the Bangladesh Liberation War. This was Ghatak’s last testament, in which he finds hope for the future, even in the shadow of his own death.

The screening of Reason, Debate and a Story on Wednesday 3 June will be introduced by season curator Sanghita Sen.