Nagarik

Nagarik "The Citizen"
Directed by	Ritwik Ghatak
Written by	Ritwik Ghatak
Produced by	Film Guild: Pramode Sengupta Bhupati Nandi Ritwik Ghatak
Starring	Satindra Bhattacharya Prova Debi Kali Banerjee Sova Sen Ketaki Dutta Geeta Shome Ajit Banerjee Keshto Mukherjee
Cinematography	Ramananda Sengupta
Music by	Anil Chandra Sengupta
Release date	20 September 1977 (1977-09-20)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Nagarik (Bengali: নাগরিক), also spelled as Nagorik (transl. The Citizen), was the first feature-length film directed by legendary Indian director Ritwik Ghatak.^[1] 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.^[2] Ghatak directed only eight feature films, but is generally regarded as one of the auteurs of Indian cinema and virtually unsurpassed as a creator of powerful imagery and epic style by directors such as Satyajit Ray^[3] and of transcendental power and extraordinariness by critics such as Derek Malcolm.