Ajantrik (known internationally as The Unmechanical, The Mechanical Man, or The Pathetic Fallacy) is a 1958 Indian Bengali film written and directed by revered parallel filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. The film is adapted from a Bengali short story of the same name written by Subodh Ghosh.
A comedy-drama film, Ajantrik is one of the earliest Indian films to portray an inanimate object, in this case, an automobile, as a character in the story. It achieves this through the use of sounds recorded post-production to emphasize the car's bodily functions and movements.
The film was considered for a special entry at the Venice Film Festival in 1959.
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