Meghe Dhaka Tara
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Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on its eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and sickly. Experimenting with off-balance compositions, discontinuous editing, and a densely layered soundtrack, Ghatak devised an intellectually ambitious and emotionally devastating new shape for the melodrama, lamenting the tragedies of Indian history and the inequities of traditional gender roles while blazing a formal trail for the generations of Indian filmmakers who have followed him. (Criterion)
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The Indians show that they are truly very capable filmmakers. Technically, the film "Star Covered by Clouds" is very successful and it is evident that there was a desire not only to film a good story but also to film it well. The use of orchestral, well-known music at times gives you goosebumps. However, here and there it is too theatrical and drawn-out.
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