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 | DVD: Bengali |
| Subtitles | DVD: 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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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Unlucky in life
This film is about the cross-roads of life where you are faced with two choices – follow your dreams, keep your ambitions, gamble everything and hope you come out winning big or, jack it all in and take the less challenging option – safety, security, a job with an income.
The central character in this film however has the choice taken away – she has to give up on dreams to look after her family, but she doesn’t give up hope for the people she loves most in life.
This self-sacrified stance does not lead to a happy times ahead for the heroine - just little thanks, a downward spiral in health and a hellish outcome all round
A powerful film, probing real issues in life – something completeley different. -
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