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This week we celebrate two different strands of Indian cinema, looking at the past and the vibrant present. First, we look at the landmark Film at Lincoln Center retrospective for Ritwik Ghatak, director of The Cloud-Capped Star, A River Called Titas, and other films. For that part of the discussion, we\u2019ll be joined by two of the series' programmers, Moinak Biswas and former Film at Lincoln Center director of programming Richard Pe\xf1a. \n\nFor the second half of the episode, we\u2019ll be talking about the Tamil filmmaker Vetri Maaran with R. Emmet Sweeney, who wrote about the director\u2019s bloody portraits of South India in our November-December issue. Our special guest host for the episode is FC assistant editor Devika Girish.