| Ajantrik | |
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| Directed by | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Written by | Subodh Ghosh (short story) Ritwik Ghatak (story elaboration) |
| Starring | Kali Banerjee Shriman Deepak Kajal Gupta Keshto Mukherjee |
| Cinematography | Dinen Gupta |
| Edited by | Ramesh Joshi |
| Music by | Ali Akbar Khan |
Production company | L. B Films International |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Ajantrik (known internationally as The Unmechanical, The Mechanical Man or The Pathetic Fallacy)[1] is a 1958 Indian Bengali film written and directed by revered parallel filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.[2] The film is adapted from a Bengali short story of the same name written by Subodh Ghosh.
A comedy-drama film, Ajantrik is one of the earliest Indian films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an automobile, as a character in the story. It achieves this through the use of sounds recorded post-production to emphasize the car's bodily functions and movements.[3]
The film was considered for a special entry in the Venice Film Festival in 1959.[4]
- ^ Holden, Stephen (27 September 1996). "A Film Series On a Director". The New York Times. p. 5.
- ^ "The Mechanical Man (1958)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ Carrigy, Megan (October 2003). "Ritwik Ghatak". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ Ghaṭaka, R̥tvikakumāra (2005). Calaccitra, mānusha ebaṃ āro kichu (1. De'ja saṃskaraṇa. ed.). Kalakātā: De'ja Pābaliśiṃ. p. 349. ISBN 81-295-0397-2.