Jukti Takko Aar Gappo

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo Jukti tkko ar gppo, English Reason, Debate and a Story is a 1974 Bengali film directed by Ritwik Ghatak. Jukti Takko Aar Gappo was Ritwik Ghataks last film. The film won National Film Awards Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974.

In this film Ghatak plays role of Nilkantha Bagchi, an alcoholic, disillusioned broken intellectual, in the characters own words a humbug. His wife leaves him because of his insufferable alcoholism. After losing his wife and being forced from his home, he wanders through the countryside and meets unusual folks along the way. Nilkantha meets Bongobala, who was driven away from Bangladesh and does not have any shelter in Kolkata he gives her shelter. He meets Jagannath Bhattacharjee, a village school teacher of Sanskrit. Jagannaths school was closed after political killings and he came to Kolkata in search of a job. Nilkantha meets Naxalites whom he describes as the frame of Bengal, but misguided, successful and unsuccessful at the same time. The film, adventurous and revolutionary, is an exceptional mix of images that challenge the limits of narrative storytelling.The film deals with various ideas and themes. Set against the backdrop of the first Naxalite wave of rebellion in India, the film is considered to be Ghataks autobiographical film, an anticlimax. 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. Ghatak, both in real life and in this film, tried to find some meaning for the political and cultural turmoil overtaking his country. ........

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