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Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Covered Star) is a 1960 film by director Ritwik Ghatak. It starred Supriya Chowdhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gita Ghatak, Bijan Bhattacharya, Niranjan Roy, and Gyanesh Mukherjee.

This film was directed by alternative filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta). In contrast to many Bollywood films made in Mumbai, India's main film center, Ghatak's films are realistic and somber, and often address issues related to the Partition of India. Although Partition is never explicitly mentioned in Meghe Dhaka Tara, it takes place in a refugee camp in the outskirts of Calcutta, and concerns an impoverished genteel Hindu bhadralok family and the problems they face because of Partition.

The film is perhaps the most widely viewed film among Ghatak's works; it was his greatest commercial success at home, and coincided with an international film movement towards personal stories and innovative techniques (the so-called 'new wave'). After Ghatak's death, his work (and this film in particular) began to attract a more sizable global audience, via film festivals and the subsequent release of DVDs both in India and in Europe.

In a confirmation of the popularity of Meghe Dhaka Tara, a recent survey by a leading Indian news group reported that the concluding line of the film, "Dada, ami baachte chai" ("Brother, I want to live") was the most well-known line of any film.

Meghe Dhaka Tara has been termed by many as an extremely manipulative experiment in cinema, in terms of content and technique. The levels of suffering heaped upon the protagonist, and the obscurity she endures are severely melodramatic, and the cinematic technique employed to achieve the same have been severely criticised.

Credits

Story: Shaktipada Rajguru
Screenplay: Ritwik Ghatak
Cinematography: Dinen Gupta
Editing: Ramesh Joshi
Sound: Satyen Chatterjee
Art Direction: Rabi Chatterjee
Music: Jyotirindra Moitra
Produced by: Chitrakalpa

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