Country; India
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
'Nagarik' is the first film of Ritwik Ghatak, where the director sets the themes and the ideology that followed in all his career as a society conscious cinematographer. It's an astonishing film , surprisingly mature, that was clearly the first Indian independent art movie ever made. Ghatak there makes a very well done and artistic mixture between naturalism and impressionism without to follow any of the rules of commercial cinema of his days and 'Nagarik' could be a huge landmark in the history of Indian cinema as someone easily could divide it as pre-nagarik cinema and post-nagarik cinema: however the film sadly couldn't be influential on time as it released 25 years after its production. 'Nagarik' is also impressively radical on the political views that express : Ghatak not only makes a rather Marxist analysis explaining the poverty through the disillusionment of the leading characters, but openly calls the people to stand against the injustice and to fight under the flags of the communist party
You can watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T03UYDTIgGA
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