Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)
Research on the film Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960): production history, cast and crew, screenings, and archival material at Tuli Research Centre for India Studies.
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Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)
The Cloud-Capped Star is one of Ritwik Ghatak's most powerful and innovative melodramas. A family of refugees from the time of the Partition of Bengal live in a shanty town near Calcutta, surviving on the earnings of the eldest daughter, Neeta. Her elder brother Shankar hopes to become a classical singer while Neeta postpones her marriage to the scientist Sanat to support the family and to pay for Shankar's studies. Eventually, with the tacit encouragement of Neeta's mother, Sanat marries her younger sister Geeta. The family is beset by misfortunes as the father and the younger brother Montu both suffer accidents, forcing Neeta to remain the sole breadwinner in spite of her worsening tuberculosis. Finally Shankar, having achieved his ambition, takes her to a mountain resort for treatment. Terminally ill and having sacrificed her best years, she finally cries out her will to live into the silence of the mountains.
Cinematographer
Dinen Gupta
Director
Ritwik Ghatak
Editing
Ramesh Joshi
Lead Cast
Bijon Bhattacharya,
Anil Chatterjee,
Supriya Choudhury,
Geeta De,
Geeta Ghatak,
Niranjan Ray
Music Director
Jyotirindra Moitra
Screenplay Writer
Ritwik Ghatak
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Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. The Exploiting Family | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Her Mother preys upon Nita to keep the hearth going | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Retrospect in Isolation | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Regeneration: Nita's rain-drenched face | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Ritwik Ghatak 1925-76 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Deshpande, G.P. (Editor) and Romi Khosla (Managing Editor & Treasurer). Journal of Arts & Ideas, April-June 1983 | Journal | 00842138
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Deshpande, G.P. (Editor) and Romi Khosla (Managing Editor & Treasurer). Journal of Arts & Ideas, April-June 1983 | Journal | 00842138
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Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. The Exploiting Family | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Her Mother preys upon Nita to keep the hearth going | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Retrospect in Isolation | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Regeneration: Nita's rain-drenched face | Photographic Still
Gupta, Dinen (Cinematographer), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960. Ritwik Ghatak 1925-76 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
Ghatak, Ritwik (Director), Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960 | Photographic Still
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