Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960 film)

Meghe Dhaka Tara
A poster for Meghe Dhaka Tara
Directed byRitwik Ghatak
Written byRitwik Ghatak (screenplay), Shaktipada Rajguru (the original novel)
Produced byChitrakalpa
StarringSupriya Choudhury,
Anil Chatterjee,
Niranjan Ray,
Gita Ghatak,
Bijon Bhattacharya,
Gita Dey,
Dwiju Bhawal,
Gyanesh Mukherjee,
Ranen Ray Choudhury
Music byComposer:
Jyotirindra Moitra
Assistant:
Anil Chandra Sengupta
Release date
  • 14 April 1960 (1960-04-14)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Meghe Dhaka Tara (Bengali: মেঘে ঢাকা তারা Mēghē 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 Mukherjee.[1] It was part of a trilogy consisting of Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960), Komal Gandhar (1961), and Subarnarekha (1962), all dealing with the aftermath of the Partition of Bengal during the Partition of India in 1947 and the refugees coping with it.[2]

  1. ^ "The Cloud Capped Star (1960)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  2. ^ Rosalind Galt; Karl Schoonover (2010). Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538562-5.

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