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Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family who have been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing. Experimenting with off-balance compositions, discontinuous editing, and a densely layered soundtrack, Ghatak devised an intellectually ambitious and emotionally devastating new shape for the melodrama, lamenting the tragedies of Indian history and the inequities of traditional gender roles while blazing a formal trail for the generations of Indian filmmakers who have followed him.
The Cloud-Capped Star was restored in partnership with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna, from elements preserved by the National Film Archive of India.
Original Release
04/14/1960
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Supriya Choudhury | Nita |
Anil Chatterjee | Shankar |
Gyanesh Mukherjee | Banshi Dutta |
Bijon Bhattacharya | Taran Master |
Gita Dey | Mother |
Gita Ghatak | Gita |
Dwiju Bhawal | Mantu |
Niranjan Ray | Sanat |
Abhi Bhattacharya | |
Satindra Bhattacharya |
Directors
Writers
Ritwik Ghatak, Samiran Dutta, Shaktipada Rajguru, Rabindranath Tagore
Cast
Name | Character |
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Supriya Choudhury | Nita |
Anil Chatterjee | Shankar |
Gyanesh Mukherjee | Banshi Dutta |
Bijon Bhattacharya | Taran Master |
Gita Dey | Mother |
Gita Ghatak | Gita |
Dwiju Bhawal | Mantu |
Niranjan Ray | Sanat |
Abhi Bhattacharya | |
Satindra Bhattacharya | |
Jamini Chakraborty | |
Suresh Chatterjee | (as Suresh Chattopadhyay) |
Ranen Ray Choudhury | Baul singer |
Arati Das | |
Narayan Dhar | |
Sanat Dutta | |
Mumtaz Ahmed Khan | |
Devi Neogy | |
Shanti Sen |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ritwik Ghatak | Producer |