Meghe Dhaka Tara (English: The Cloud Capped Star)
Year Language Running Time Rating
1960 Bengali (with English subtitles) 134 minutes Festival Rating 18+
       
ACMI, Federation Square: Monday , May 6 at 8:45 pm

Director Ritwik Ghatak
Cast Supriya Chaudhury, Anil Chaterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Gita De, Gita Ghatak, Niranjan Roy, Dwiju Bhawal
Synopsis Revered auteur Ritwik Ghatak also used neorealism to push Indian cinema forward and this was perhaps his greatest film. The first of a trilogy examining the human cost of Partition, it follows a Calcutta village girl whose struggle to keep her family out of poverty is constantly undermined. Her final words in the film rank as one of Indian cinema’s most famous lines.
     
     
 
     
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