The Cloud Capped Star
1960
Ritwik Ghatak's lauded drama follows a young refugee from Pakistan as she tries to make ends meet for her family on the rough streets of Calcutta. Read more
| Starring | Gita De, Niranjan Roy, Gita Ghatak, Anil Chatterjee |
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| Director | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Cloud Capped Star
Ritwik Ghatak's lauded drama follows a young refugee from Pakistan as she tries to make ends meet for her family on the rough streets of Calcutta.
| Starring | Gita De, Niranjan Roy, Gita Ghatak, Anil Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Dwiju Bhawal, Supriya Choudhury |
|---|---|
| Director | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | Bengali |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Oct 2002 Production year: 1960 |
| Format | DVD |
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A key figure in the Parallel Cinema movement, director Ritwik Ghatak combines social realism with stylised expressionism in this audacious melodrama, which also manages to evoke Bengali myth and the “selfless sister” pictures of the great Japanese director, Kenji Mizoguchi. Sacrificing her health and happiness to fulfil the ambitions of her siblings, Supriya Choudhury gives a performance of affecting determination and dignity. But while this first part of Ghatak's Calcutta trilogy was acclaimed for its political conviction and cinematic invention, the concluding instalments, E Flat (1961) and The Golden Thread (1962), caused such a furore that he was unable to work for a decade.
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The Bengali writer/director Ritwik Ghatak has been acclaimed as the most important Indian film-maker after Satyajit... read more on Time Out
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Inspired by a woman at the bus stop to make a movie
This is a wonderfully sad drama. About self-sacrifice of a young woman. She tries to be the breadwinner to her family of parents, brothers and sister. But they never show any appreciation for her. You wonder how will she escape this, she does in the end but not the way you want her to. There are some extras with Derek Malcolm the film critic.
The director made this story after seeing a woman at the bus stop. He imagined there must be many women like her. I have to agree. -
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Not your average Bollywood
Not sure why I chose this film in the first place but it had me enthralled from the beginning. You can not call it a Bollywood film, but it did portrayed the culture of India. Although the female role is suppressed, our heroine was not of this ilk.
A love story with a cruel twist but very watchable. -
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