A River Called Titas

+ intro by Tanjil Rashid, New Statesman culture editor

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Poetic depiction of memory, loss and a vanishing fishing community.

  • Director

    Ritwik Ghatak

  • With

    Rosy Samad, Kaberi Choudhury, Roshan Jamil, Rani Sircar

  • Bangladesh-India 1973. 158min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

In 1972, Ghatak returned to his lost homeland, the newly liberated Bangladesh, to adapt Dalit writer Advaita Mallabarman’s novel about a fishing community whose lives depend on a dying river. Foreshadowing our climate crisis, Ghatak’s radically structured narrative weaves personal tragedy with ecological fragility, in a visually gorgeous meditation on the resilience of people and culture amid environmental loss.

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