Directed by Ritwik Ghatak, followed by an insightful introduction and post-screening discussion with renowned cinema scholar, Ira Bhaskar.

About the film:
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam or A River Called Titas, is a 1973 Indian-Bangladeshi film directed by Ritwik Ghatak. The film was based on the novel of the same name, by Adwaita Mallabarman. It explores the life of the fishermen on the bank of the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.

Ira Bhaskar, retired Professor of Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, has co-authored Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (2009) and co-edited Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories (2022). She is also editing Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Quartet, with the first volume on Nagarik (2021), and is currently working on a book on Trauma, Memory, and Representation in Indian cinema. Bhaskar has lectured at institutions such as FTII, Jamia Millia Islamia, and several international universities, with her articles exploring Indian cinema, melodrama, nationalism, and more.