Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam Bengali , or A River Called Titas, is a 1973 Bangladeshi film 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 Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.

A fisherman, Kishore, marries a young girl accidental when he visits a nearby village. After their wedding night during which the couple is almost too shy to speak, she is kidnapped on the river. Kishore became mad. She fights with the bandits, jumps into the river and is saved by some strange villagers. But she does not know her new husbands name or what he looks like, she only remembers the name of his village. Ten years pass before she attempts to find him with their son, who sees his mother as a goddess. Some residents of Kishores village refuse to share food with her and her son because of the everpresent threat of starvation. A young widow whose name is Basanthi giving consideration to the mother and child. Kishore was the lover of Basanthi on childhood. Director Ghatak appears in the film as a boatman, and Basantis story is the first of several melodramatic tales.

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