Overview
- KIFF, running November 6–13, will honor Ghatak with six restored classics on the big screen and a dedicated exhibition.
- Suman Maitra’s new Bengali feature A2, conceived as a homage, is set to play in the festival’s Bengali Panorama section.
- West Bengal has hosted year-long centenary programs, including a forthcoming state-backed essay volume by Sanjay Mukhopadhyay with Goutam Ghose.
- Coverage highlights fresh political resonance, linking renewed interest to debates in Bengal such as the SIR electoral roll drive and recalling a 2019 BJP youth-wing video plan that his family opposed.
- Reappraisals emphasize his FTII teaching legacy and global admirers like Satyajit Ray and Martin Scorsese, as his eight-feature oeuvre—led by the Partition trilogy—finds new audiences.