Titash Ekti Nadir Naam is a 1973 Bengali film

Bengali cinema

Bengali cinema refers to the Bengali language filmmaking industries in the Bengal region of South Asia. There are two major film-making hubs in the region: one in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and the other in Dhaka, Bangladesh .The history of cinema in Bengal dates back to the 1890s, when the first...

 directed by Ritwik Ghatak. The movie was based on a novel by the same name, written by Advaita Malla Burman. The movie explores the life of the fishermen on the bank of the Titash River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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Rosy Samad, Golam Mostafa, Kabori, Prabir Mitra, and Roushan Jamil acted in the main roles. The shooting of the movie took a toll on Ghatak's health, as he was suffering from tuberculosis at the time.

Alongside Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

's Kanchenjungha

Kanchenjungha

Kanchenjungha is a 1962 Bengali film by Bengali film director Satyajit Ray. It was Ray's first original screenplay and his first colour film....

(1962)
and Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...

's Calcutta 71

Calcutta 71

Calcutta 71 iss a 1972 Bengali film directed by noted Indian art film director Mrinal Sen. This film is considered to be the second film of Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy, the others being Interview, and Padatik.-External links:**...

(1972), Titash Ekti Nadir Naam is one of the earliest films to resemble hyperlink cinema

Hyperlink cinema

Hyperlink cinema is a term coined by author Alissa Quart, who used the term in her review of the film Happy Endings for the film journal Film Comment in 2005. Film critic Roger Ebert popularized the term when reviewing the film Syriana in 2005...

, featuring multiple characters in a collection of interconnected stories, predating Robert Altman

Robert Altman

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's Nashville (1975).

In 2007, A River Named Titash topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films

Cinema of Bangladesh

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, as chosen in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute

British Film Institute

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Ghatak on the film

• "Could the civilization be destroyed for ever? No it isn't. It's transformed. This is the motif I wanted to highlight through this film."

• "Without me, Titash couldn't be possible. Titash was my dream."