Ideology
Ghatak was not only a film director, he was a film theorist too. His views and commentaries on films have been parts of scholarly studies and researches. As a filmmaker his main concentration was on men and life and specially the day to day struggle of ordinary men. He could never accept the partition of India of 1947 which divided Bengal into two different countries. Ghatak in almost all his film has dealt with this theme.
Film-making was not only art for him. In his opinion it was only a means to the end of serving people, it was only a means of expressing his anger at the sorrows and sufferings of his people.
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