Derek Malcolm on Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)

[@LLAWLIETkiracatcher]

The dialogue at the last - " দাদা আমি বাঁচতে চেয়েছিলাম " always made me cry like a baby , because she lost everything in his life , she dreamed a lot but for the sake of fullfilling the dreams of his brothers and sisters she sacrificed everything , and at the end when she get to know that she is having the last stage of tubercolasis she cried and told his elder brother who became a famous classical singer at the end " i wanted to live , why cant i live ? " This shows the pain and suffering of womens of that days modern indian womens , in the last scene of the movie we can see that same as the ist scene of the movie another lady's sandle got teared and she started walking barefoot , same as the heroine of the movie in the ist scene , depicting it as a thing common on that day's society . Womens sacrificed themselves , Always show the the path to his family but always lost behind the cloud ,,,,,,,,,,,,, thats why the name of this movie is also " মেঘে ঢাকা তারা " or "The cloud- caped star"

[@dwirajesh]

Ghatak is one of the most amazing creator I have ever come across... And his sense of music

[@mizofan]

I got this screened at the Brecon Film Society about 20 years ago- and (what i didn't know) Derek was judge for the best film society season/selection, and we won!

[@ashiqueali1464]

Thank you so much for uploading this video about great Ritwik Ghatak who was no doubt one of the great filmmaker in the world cinema.

[@adamszymanski5573]

Excellent video on a film that stands the test of time.

[@sayantangoswami6618]

Thank you for this enriching discussion.

[@cherrypie151]

You are a film studies student ?

[@indranilbhattacharjee9770]

Great discussion sir.

[@surjagain]

Thank you so very much for this review.

[@cinnamon4605]

Thank you.

[@Mancub2b]

im inspired og, thank you

[@sajalbanerjee3423]

It's a landmark film in the annals of Indian films. It's a saga of survival post partition of a family through one member s solo efforts. The family turns the tide but the saviour dies. At the end spotlight on another girl of another family to show the beginning of the end.

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

This film was on late night UK TV in late 2005 just at the time when my widowed mother who sacrificed herself bring up four sons and paying off 22 years mortgage [after our good-for-nothing, wife-beating father died] was in a temporary Respite Care facility as the deterioration of her Parkinsons [which ruined her life one year after early retirement in 1995] as I could not cope with worsening situation as her full-time carer as so many new problems arose. A few weeks later she was taken to hospital and died before. Thus it was extremely meaning for me and they even had a preview with Derek Malcolm when it was shown again a week or so later.

[@NoirFan84]

The greatest Indian film.