| Ekti Nadir Naam | |
| Director: | Anup Singh |
| Producer: | NFDC, British Film Institute, Aashirbad Chalachitra, Bangladesh, The Ministry of External Affairs, India, Riverfilms |
| Starring: | Shiboprosad Mukherjee Shomi Kaiser Supriya Devi Abhanish Bandopadhyay |
| Distributor: | British Film Institute |
| Cinematography: | K. K. Mahajan |
| Editing: | Arghyakamal Mitra |
| Runtime: | 1:27:34 |
| Country: | India, UK, Bangladesh |
| Language: | Bengali |
Ekti Nadir Naam (English: The Name of a River) is a 2003 documentary-style film directed Anup Singh, exploring the life and work of the great Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak and is set in the partition of Bengal in 1947.[1]
The film won the Silver Dhow Prize at the 5th Zanzibar International Film Festival.[2]
The Name of a River is Anup Singh's debut work[3] and focuses on a love story between a man and a woman crossing the river between Bangladesh and India - playing the roles of refugees, divine beings and literary and cinematic characters - to understand the mysteries of the events that led to the massacre of half a million people and forced ten million people to migrate across the newly established borders. Covering a huge area of visual, aural and intellectual ground within its 90 minutes, this exquisite film presents its audience with a dreamlike odyssey through a history, a life and a work that we, the viewers, encounter in the shape of stunning landscapes and music, lovers and gods, myths and memories, literature and cinema.[4]
The film was shot in India and Bangladesh.