Bhaskar Chitrakar: Painting Kalighat Moderns

An audio-visual portrait of hereditary artist and flâneur Bhaskar Chitrakar, exploring his painting style that reimagines a centuries-old, mixed-media tradition of religious idol representation at Kolkata’s Kalighat temple.

  • Matthew Raj Webb
    Directors and Producers
    Retouch (2022, 18 mins), From the Coalfield to the Classroom (2021, 15 mins).
  • Ihaab Syed
    Directors and Producers
  • Rohan Sengupta
    Directors and Producers
  • Bhaskar Chitrakar
    Featuring
  • Nikita Jailesh Shah
    Production Support
  • Jaita Chakraborty
    Production Support
  • SambitC
    Music
  • Santanu Mahalik
    Captions
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    Art, Biography
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 23, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Bengali, Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
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With special thanks to:

The NYU Program in Culture & Media

Joshua A. Bell and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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