Ajantrik (known internationally as The Unmechanical, The Mechanical Man or The Pathetic Fallacy)[1] is a 1958 Indian Bengali film written and directed by revered parallel filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.

[2] The film is adapted from a Bengali short story of the same name written by Subodh Ghosh.

His taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye.

The film shows episodes from his life in the industrial wasteland, transporting people from one place to another.

According to the noted Bengali poet and German scholar Alokeranjan Dasgupta, "The merciless conflict of ethereal nature and mechanised civilization, through the love of taxi driver Bimal and his pathetic vehicle Jagaddal seems to be a unique gift of...modernism."