The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) (1960)

ah, so this is where shameless got it from. a young woman sacrificing her own happiness to keep an entire ungrateful family afloat while everybody around her happily continues living their lives at her expense. sounds about right. but I’m not gonna waste your time. let’s…

watchedbyadrien

striking images -- nita crying in the foreground but out of focus as her mother berates her from behind really stands out. and the sound design can't go unmentioned -- cacophonous, all-encompassing. almost felt like i was watching a 4d melodrama.

KYK

What do you call love that gives and gives until there’s nothing left? Ghatak calls it Neeta. She’s someone so full of love, kindness , so gently bright and hopeful and yet she’s slowly devoured by the very people she breaks herself for. Her life keeps getting smaller and…

Hamza

”Suffer for others and there’ll be no end to your suffering” A really well directed meditation on family responsibility versus personal ambition, and as much as everyone talks about Ray’s Apu trilogy I’m surprised this film isn’t mentioned more. Granted, I found it…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

What creates style? Talking about style is easy (to an extent), but finding the motivating factors behind it is difficult. We'll talk about influence in the most common terms (he influenced him, etc), use the context of a nation, or simply point to a theoretical or…

Peter Labuza

"Brother, I want to survive." Tragic injustice and a harsh reality revolving a noble heart whose physical beauty is merely something symbolic to remind us of her purity. Ritwik Ghatak, a renowned name whose importance easily matches Satyajit Ray, begins his trilogy about…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

a divided people is a broken heart.

matt lynch

In this classic Indian tale of tragedy from a time long before the Spice Girls were promoting Girl Power, Nita watches. She gives. She waits, and then gives some more. A story of diminishing hope as time goes by, Ritwik Ghatak's beautiful imagery feels in many ways like a…

Graham

”Suffer for others and there’ll be no end to your suffering” -Shankar, Frustrating. Families can really suck and this film is one of the ultimate "families can really suck" movies. The story can be so frustrating at times but in an effective way that makes you feel…

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