Movie Description:
The Cloud Capped Star is a dark melodrama set in late Fifties Calcutta about a refugeefamily and the struggle of Nita, the oldest daughter, to keepthem afloat and together. It isa bittercritique of the family as institution and also of theharsh social and economic conditions arising fromPartition- the trauma that defined Ghatak as an artist. With its sparse script, audacious expressionist sound- track and a startling cinematicelegance, The Cloud Capped Staris undoubtedly a modern masterpiece- infinitely compassionate and humane while remaining resolutely unsentimental