The Cloud-Capped Star

The Cloud-Capped Star(1960)

04/13/1960 (US)Drama2h 7m
7.3

Overview

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Ritwik Ghatak

Director

Ritwik Ghatak

Screenplay

Shaktipada Rajguru

Story

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Hoichoi

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Part of the Partition Trilogy

Ritwik Ghatak was averse to the term “refugee problem”. In one of his interviews, he said, “I have tackled the refugee problem, as you have used the term, not as a ‘refugee’ problem. To me it was the division of a culture, and I was shocked”. This shock would give birth to a trilogy on the Partition – Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star), 1960; Komal Gandhar (E-Flat), 1961; and Subarnarekha (The Golden Thread), 1962. In them, he highlighted the insecurity and anxiety engendered by the homelessness of the refugees of Bengal; tried to convey how Partition struck at the roots of Bengali culture; and sought to express the nostalgia and yearning that many Bengalis felt for their pre-Partition way of life.

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Ritwik Ghatak Retrospective | Trailer | Nov. 1-6

Ritwik Ghatak Retrospective | Trailer | Nov. 1-6

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The Cloud-Capped Star

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