Ritwik Ghatak
Soviet communism also arrived in India. One of the leading figures of the Parallel Cinema from India, Ritwik Ghatak, along with Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, created an alternative film culture to the mainstream commercial cinema. This was an alternative culture that had a strong interest in the sociopolitical context that affected the Indian population. Ghatak and Sen in paticular, who were active members of the Indian People´s Theatre Association (IPTA), wanted to bring cultural awakening to the India population, just as the Bolsheviks had wanted to do with cinema immediately following the revolution. The IPTA was the cultural wing of the Indian Communist Party that was dispersed in 1947, but whose legacy was continued by members like Ghatak. A film director famous for his meticulous depiction of social realities. Mrinal Sen, on the other hand, was known as a Marxist artist - since he became part of the Naxalite groups that were militating in different parts of India -, making films about the middle-class society that would be enemies of progress.