Nagarik (1977)

Nagarik is a Bengali-language drama film from 1977 directed by Ritwik Ghatak, starring Satindra Bhattacharya and Kali Banerjee.

Nagarik (Bengali: নাগরিক), also spelled as Nagorik (transl. The Citizen), was the first feature-length film directed by legendary Indian director Ritwik Ghatak. Completed in 1952, it preceded Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali as perhaps the first example of an art film in Bengali cinema, but is deprived of that honor, since it was released twenty-four years later, after Ghatak's death. On 20 September 1977, it finally premiered at the New Empire theatre in Kolkata, India.

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