Borders and Boundaries: Narratives and Discourse of Indian Cinema with Special Reference to Ritwik Ghatak

India is famous for unity in diversity within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country. The partition of India in 1947 was a major catastrophic historical event which resulted in the killing of thousand s of innocent people, loot, robbery, rape of young girls and women, homelessness of thousands of people and utter chaos leading to the division of the country into two nations—India and Pakistan. It inspired many writers from both India and Pakistan to depict it in their literary creations in the form of poetry, fiction, short stories, memoirs, prose-work and drama. But, there are major differences in depiction. While some creations depicted the massacres during the refugee migration, others concentrated on the aftermath of the partition. In this article, I tried to focus on different narratives and discourses of Indian cinema and particularly films made during the partition that left a permanent impression on its viewers. The second part of my article is on film maker Ritwik Kumar Ghatak and his creative interpretation of the phenomenon of partition and displacement.