Subarnarekha - (Ghatak's Partition Quartet: The Screenplays) by Ira Bhaskar (Paperback)

About the Book

The concluding volume of the Partition Quartet Screenplays of Ritwik Ghatak, Subarnarekha is a devastating critique of the fallout of the partition.

Book Synopsis

The concluding volume of the Partition Quartet Screenplays of Ritwik Ghatak, Subarnarekha is a devastating critique of the fallout of the partition. Set in post-partition Bengal, it chronicles the journey of refugee families as they attempt to settle down in a new land after surviving the worst bloodbath witnessed in the history of the subcontinent and the mass migration that followed. Ghatak's cinematic narrative, in the 'critical melodramatic' form, acquires tremendous resonance through the use of music, myth, archetypes and allegory to articulate a critique of modern civilization's destructive potential.

About the Author

Shampa Banerjee, a literature scholar with a deep interest in cinema, worked as a teacher, editor and translator. She has worked on post-production reconstructions and translations of filmscripts, including Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy.

Ira Bhaskar retired as Professor of Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has co-authored Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (2009) and co-edited Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories (2022).