Photo: Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

If you like Ritwik Ghatak, read these authors

Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer (1925–1976)

Also known as: Ritwik Kumar Ghatak, Ритвик Гхатак, ريتويك غاتاك, リトゥック・ガタク, 李維克·伽塔克, Ṛtbik Kumār Ghaṭak

Similar authors

This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Ritwik Ghatak, their data replaces the AI suggestions.

Prabodh Kumar Bandyopadhyay1908–1956
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Marxist-inflected Bengali fiction about the dispossessed and rural hardship, sharing Ghatak's social realism. (AI reason)
Report
Bijon Bhattacharya1917–1978
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
IPTA political theatre on famine and displacement, closely aligned with Ghatak's dramatic work. (AI reason)
Report
Samaresh Basu1924–1988
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Gritty Bengali fiction of working-class and refugee life after Partition. (AI reason)
Report
Advaita Mallabarmana1914–1951
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Riverine epic of East Bengal fishing community, the source of Ghatak's film Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. (AI reason)
Report
Satyajit Ray1921–1992
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Bengali filmmaker-writer whose essays on cinema and stories share a humanist Bengali milieu. (AI reason)
Report

Show all 10

Mrinal Sen1923–2018
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Politically engaged writings on cinema and Calcutta, paralleling Ghatak's film theory. (AI reason)
Report
Utpal Dutt1929–1993
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Revolutionary Bengali theatre and writings on political drama. (AI reason)
Report
Jibanananda Das1899–1954
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Lyrical evocations of the lost Bengal landscape that haunt Ghatak's Partition vision. (AI reason)
Report
Prafulla Roy1934–2025
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Fiction on East Bengal refugees and Partition uprooting. (AI reason)
Report
Mahasweta Devi1926–2016
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Politically committed Bengali fiction about marginalized people and historical trauma. (AI reason)
Report

Pick Ritwik Ghatak and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.