The Name of a River (Full Movie)

Written and performed as a tribute to Ritwik Ghatak's preoccupation with the trauma of partition and separation from a homeland, The Name of a River can be placed in continuum with Ghatak's cinema- a nostalgic return to a lost homeland as well as the bygone era of Ghatak's form and stylized treatment of memory and the loss of home. It is the story of Anusua, a Bangladesi refugee who travels by the river Padma to reach Kolkata to start in order to start a new life in a new land- and yet at the same time it is a reminder of many of Ghatak's central female characters who were burdened with the fragility of memory and the permanency of their refugee status.