Ajantrik
Ajantrik (known internationally as The Unmechanical, The Mechanical Man or The Pathetic Fallacy) is a 1958 Indian Bengali film written and directed by revered parallel filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. The film is adapted from a Bengali short story of the same name written by Subodh Ghosh.
| Ajantrik | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Written by | Subodh Ghosh (short story) Ritwik Ghatak (story elaboration) |
| Starring | Kali Banerjee Shriman Deepak Kajal Gupta Keshto Mukherjee |
| Cinematography | Dinen Gupta |
| Edited by | Ramesh Joshi |
| Music by | Ali Akbar Khan |
Production company | L. B Films International |
Release date | 23 May 1958 |
Running time | 104 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
A comedy-drama film, Ajantrik is one of the earliest Indian films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an automobile, as a character in the story. It achieves this through the use of sounds recorded post-production to emphasize the car's bodily functions and movements.
The film was considered for a special entry in the Venice Film Festival in 1959.
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