The Cloud-Capped Star

The Cloud-Capped StarCast and Crew

Movie

Cast

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Supriya Choudhury
as Nita
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Anil Chatterjee
as Shankar
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Gyanesh Mukherjee
as Banshi Dutta
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Bijon Bhattacharya
as Taran Master
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Gita Dey
as Mother
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Gita Ghatak
as Gita
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Dwiju Bhawal
as Mantu
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Niranjan Ray
as Sanat
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Ranen Ray Choudhury
as Baul singer
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Abhi Bhattacharya

Crew

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Ritwik Ghatak
Director
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Ritwik Ghatak
Screenplay
R
Ramesh Joshi
Editor
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Jyotirindra Moitra
Music
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Shaktipada Rajguru
Story
D
Dinen Gupta
Director of Photography

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.