Bengali writer-director Ritwik Ghatak ("Nagarik"/"A River Called Titas"/"Reason, Debate and a Story") is recognized widely as India's second most acclaimed filmmaker, with only the great Satyajit Ray considered his better. The Cloud-Capped Star is the first leg of a trilogy that includesE FlatandSubarnarekha. This film classic from India is set in the late 1950's in the outskirts of an impoverished Calcutta. The tragic melodrama involves a refugee middle-class family, victims of the 1947 Partition of East Bengal, who are struggling to survive their poverty and loss of cultural values.It's based on a story by Shaktipada Rajguru.
A family, uprooted from East Pakistan by the Partition of India, are now refugees living on the outskirts of Calcutta. Nita (Supriya Choudhury), a beautiful young girl, has taken on the responsibility for the family as her older brother, Shankar (Anil Chatterjee) has abandoned the family for the life of a singer. He spends his days singing rather than working. The father is a teacher, but makes only a pittance. Nita is trying to go to school while also teaching local children, but when her father is injured she becomes the sole support of the family.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak (as Shri Ritwik Kumar Ghatak)
Cast: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee
Country: India
Genre: Drama, Musical
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