The Cloud-Capped Star
1960 · Movie · 127 min · ★ 7.2 · 83% critics
In a struggling refugee household, a young woman becomes the family’s main support and quietly gives up her own hopes for their sake. As demands and ingratitude pile up around her, the film traces the emotional cost of duty, poverty, and self-sacrifice.
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Details
- Original title
- মেঘে ঢাকা তারা
- Years
- 1960
- Release date
- 1960-04-13
- Language
- BN
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (57 votes)
About
You may like this if you connect with tragic family dramas and the social realism of The Big City or Distant Thunder; Not for you if you dislike slow, sorrow-heavy stories built around sacrifice and frustration.
Pros: emotionally powerful story; haunting music; striking atmosphere | Cons: very slow pace; heavy melodrama; relentless misery
Themes
- self sacrifice
- refugee
- poverty
- calcutta
Cast & crew
Supriya Choudhury
as Nita
Anil Chatterjee
as Shankar
Gyanesh Mukhopadhyay
as Banshi Dutta
Bijon Bhattacharya
as Taran Master
Gita Dey
as Mother
- GG
Gita Ghatak
as Gita
- DB
Dwiju Bhawal
as Mantu
- NR
Niranjan Ray
as Sanat
- RC
Ranen Ray Choudhury
as Baul singer
Abhi Bhattacharya
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak