Jukti Takko Aar Gappo

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo poster
Film poster
Directed byRitwik Ghatak
Written byRitwik Ghatak
Produced byRita Productions, Ritwik Ghatak
StarringSee below
CinematographyBaby Islam
Edited byAmalesh Sikdar
Music byUstad Bahadur Khan
Release date
  • 30 September 1977 (1977-09-30) (Kolkata)
Running time
120 mins[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo scene (1 min 28 secs)
Nilkantha Bagachi (character played by Ritwik Ghatak) is talking to Satyajit Basu (character played by Utpal Dutt). In this scene Bagchi is narrating that his life is wasted (like many others lives).
Problems playing this file? See media help.

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Jukti tôkko aːr gôppo, transl. Reason, Debate and a Story)

National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974.[5]

Synopsis

In this film Ghatak plays

Naxalites
, with whom he discussed Marxist history and he described them as the "cream of Bengal" misguided, successful and unsuccessful at the same time. when the police come and a shootout begins. Bagchi, after taking a bullet dies saying "Do you remember Madan the weaver he used to say will I buy raw stock from the bourgeoisie? betray all of you? By not working I have become stiff so I weave without cotton, something has to be done".

Themes

The film deals with various ideas and themes. Set against the backdrop of the first Naxalite wave of rebellion in India,[7] the film is considered to be Ghatak's autobiographical film,[8] an anti-climax.[9] Ghatak himself explained, "In it [Jukti Takko Aar Gappo] the political backdrop of West Bengal from 1971 to 1972 as I saw it has been portrayed. There is no ideology. I saw it from a point of view of not a politician. I am not supposed to please a political ideology". Ghatak was aware of a complete breakdown of moral values around him, especially among the younger generation. He tried to portray these issues in this film (and also in his unfinished film Sei Vishnupriya).[10] Ghatak, both in real life and in this film, tried to find some meaning for the political and cultural turmoil overtaking his country.[4]

Imagery

In an interview Ghatak mentioned that "The Great Mother Image" in its duality exists in every aspects of our being, and he incorporated this image into films like Meghe Dhaka Tara and Jukti Takko Aar Gappo.[11]

Allegorical characters

The characters in this film have been portrayed allegorically.

  • Ghatak played the character of Nilkantha Bagchi, his alter ego. Nilkantha is the name of Hindu god Shiva, who drank poison that emerged from the oceans to prevent it from destroying everything in the world.
  • Tripti Mitra played the role of Nilkantha Bagchi's wife Durga (influenced by Hindu goddess
    Sati
    (a very pious woman, and consort of Shiva).
  • Ritaban Ghatak (Ghatak's real life son) played the character of Nilkantha Bagchi's son Satya. In Sanskrit and Bengali the word Satya means "true" or "real".
  • The character Nachiketa is inspired by the Hindu mythological character Nachiketa.
  • The character Jagannath Bhattacharjee, a Sanskrit language teacher, has been depicted as a representative of ancient Vedic civilisation.
  • Panchanan Ustad is representative of rural people, not very educated, but very rich with their own (folk) culture and heritage.

Credits

Cast

Others
  • Satindra Bhattacharya
  • Tarak Chattopadhyay
  • Nani Chattpadhyay
  • Subrata Sensharma
  • Tapan Chattopadhyay
  • Munir Choudhury.

Technical team

  • Direction: Ritwik Ghatak
  • Assistant directors: Deb Dutta, Ananya Roy, Nikhil Bhattacharya, Dilip Mukhopadhyay, Tapan Saha[13][14]
  • Story, screenplay, music and executive producer: Ritwik Ghatak
  • Cinematography: Baby Islam
  • Assistant cinematographer: Shankar Chattopadhyay, Dipak Das
  • Editorial team
    • Editor: Amalesh Sikdar
    • Assistant: Kali Prasad Roy
    • Supervisor: Ramesh Joshi
  • Art direction: Rabi Chattopdahyay
  • Assistant: Surath Das, Suresh Chandra Chanda, Somnath Chakraborty
  • Dance choreography: Shambhu Bhattacharya
  • Publicity layouts: Khaled Choudhury
  • Music:
    Ustad Bahadur Khan
  • Playback singers: Debabrata Biswas, Ranen Ray Choudhury, Arati Mukhopadhyay, Binpani Roy Choudhury
  • Sound recording: Shyam Sundar Ghosh

Soundtrack

The following songs appear in the film's

Ustad Bahadur Khan
:

  1. Keno cheye achho go Ma (singer Sushil Mallick and Debabrata Biswas)
  2. Amar onge onge ke bajaye banshi (Rabindra Sangeet)
  3. Namaz aamar hoilo na adaay
  4. Chhau dance
  5. Janti gachhe janti phal je

Reception

  • "Jukti Takko Aar Gappo, a film so daring in its complete disregard of the very language and grammar of cinema he had mastered and developed that it is difficult to understand how it achieves its intense intimacy with the audience. It is as if the characters step out of the screen to talk to you and you are forced to respond to them, to react very sharply for or against them. The central character played by Ghatak himself parodies his real life in such a way that it compels the audience to reflect and criticise him. Perhaps this is just what Ritwik had been struggling to do through cinema all his life. Ironically, perhaps, he wanted to see that it could be achieved only through a conscious rejection of much of what has come to be accepted as the language of cinema." –Safdar Hashmi[citation needed]
  • "In Jukti Takko Aar Gappo, the elements were presented in their new raw form — reason, argument, story, song that hunger which is the basis of human creativity. So that Ritwik calls himself a humbug a civilisation sees how it is reduced to ashes. Yet there was no nihilism; he dies pleading with those who would annihilate their compassion along with their enemy. Our heroism will find itself trapped in mechanical crossfire of gunpowder, if it refuses to nourish itself on nature and history. For Ritwik, the heroic act the ultimate and the first sacrifice, has to be the act of union."– Kumar Shahani[citation needed]

Screenings in different festivals

  • 2017: Ritwik Ghatak Retrospective UK, at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK, Programme curated by Sanghita Sen, Department of Film Studies, St Andrews University, UK [15]

Accolades

In a 2012 poll conducted by

Sight & Sound, 2 critics and 2 directors (including Amit Dutta) included the film on their respective lists of "The Greatest Films of All Time", hence making it the 322nd best film according to the Director's poll (a rank it shares with Subarnarekha).[16]

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Reason, Debate and a Story (Jukti Takko Ar Gappo)". harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-87-02-04523-9
    . Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Click here to find out more! Reason, Debate and a Story (1974)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7864-3907-2
    . Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Na22nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Reason, Debate and a Story (1974) Acting Credits". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic" (PDF). Raqs Media Collective. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  8. ISBN 978-0-8223-4411-7
    . Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  9. ISBN 978-81-317-2671-6
    . Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  10. ^ Ghatak, Ritwik (1987). Cinema and I. Ritwik Memorial Trust.
  11. ^ Ghatak, Ritwik. Cinema and I. Ritwik Memorial Trust. p. 78.
  12. ^ "Shaoli Mitra: চিরবিদায় শাঁওলি মিত্রের, শেষ ইচ্ছাপত্র মেনে সবার আড়ালে তাঁর শেষকৃত্য". Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali). Kolkata. 16 January 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  13. ISBN 978-81-201-0007-7
    . Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  14. ^ "After internship with Ghatak and flops with Prosenjit, Tapan Saha goes big with bilingual". Telegraph, Calcutta. 20 May 2009. Archived from the original on 24 May 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  15. ^ "What's on at DCA - Dundee Contemporary Arts". Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  16. ^ "Votes for JUKTI TAKKO AR GAPPO (1974)". Archived from the original on 21 April 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2019.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jukti_Takko_Aar_Gappo&oldid=1218065092"