François Truffaut and Ritwik Ghatak

The 400 Blows (French: Les Quatre Cents Coups) is a 1959 French drama film, the debut by director François Truffaut; it stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement.

The British Film Institute provides only an alphabetical listing of the top ten recommended movies. They are:

• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Kes (1969)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• The 400 Blows (1959)
• Show Me Love (1998)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Where is the Friend's Home? (1987)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)

His film “Bari Theke Paliye” (1958) had a similar plot to François Truffaut later film “The 400 Blows” (1959), but Ghatak's film remained obscure while Truffaut's film went on to become one of the most famous films of the French New Wave. One of Ghatak's final films, “Titash Ekti Nodir Naam”, is one of the earliest films to be told in a hyperlink format, featuring multiple characters in a collection of interconnected stories, predating Robert Altman's “Nashville”, globally considered a pioneer of the style, by two years.

The 400 Blows

Bari Theke Paliye

Reference

http://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/film/ritwik-ghatak-man-ahead-his-time-166747

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_list_of_the_50_films_you_should_see_by_the_age_of_14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_400_Blows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut

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