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Meghe Dhaka Tara (Bengali: মেঘে ঢাকা তারাMēghē Ḍhākā Tārā, lit. The Cloud-Capped Star) is a 1960 film written and directed by Ritwik Ghatak, based on a social novel by Shaktipada Rajguru with the same title. It stars Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gita Dey, Bijon Bhattacharya, Niranjan Roy, and Gyanesh ...
Aug 27, 2016 · Dinen Gupta, who was the cinematographer of the film, was ably assisted by the filmmaker himself and the result is this magic that we see on screen. The Sight & Sound poll ranked ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ as the 231 st best film of all time in 2002. It was also included in the book ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’.
Kamaleswar Mukherjee, M.B.B.S. is an Indian film director, actor, and physician known for his work in Bengali -language films. Films directed by him include Chander Pahar (2013), Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013), Amazon Obhijaan (2017) Cockpit (2017).
YearFilmDirectorWriter2025Ami amar motoYesYes2023YesYes2023A Separate SkyNoNo2023MayaaNoNoDirected by Ritwik Ghatak Produced by Ritwik Ghatak Written by Ritwik Ghatak Featuring Supriya Devi, Anil Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya
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Supriya Choudhury —————— NeetaAnil Chatterjee ———————— Shankar (Elder Brother)Niranjan Ray ————————— SanatGita Ghatak —————————- GitaAlthough it is not explicitly shown, the film is based on the partition of India and how the refugees from then East Bengal (Pakistan) coped with it. Meghe Dhaka Tara is the story of Neeta, a beautiful and talented young girl from a middle-class family in East Bengal who has now been living in a refugee shanty on the outskirts of Calcutta. Her elde...
Meghe Dhaka Tara happens to be the most acclaimed film of Ritwik Ghatak and not without reason. This rural drama can be considered a meditative take on poverty and family dysfunction in the middle of a refugee slum of Calcutta. Ghatak manages to boil the human and survival instincts to their most basic ruthless form. There is hardly any room for lo...
“Ritwik Ghatak’s new film ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’…constitutes a glorious triumph for the rising group of young filmmakers who have been striving to rescue the cinema from the quagmire of escapist entert...
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Feb 12, 2021 · It isn’t hard to understand why the French film critic Serge Daney called Meghe Dhaka Tara “one of the five or six greatest melodramas in cinema history.” Towards incendiary ends, he drew on Brechtian theater and Eisensteinian techniques of montage and contrapuntal sound.
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Apr 29, 2023 · Meghe Dhaka Tara adopts a protofeminist approach in critiquing the post partition society while also eliciting some empathy by deliverance of dialogues by the Nita’s family. The scenography entails an element of grief for the family having to be uprooted to refugee colonies in East Pakistan.
