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In this episode, we discuss Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star, including the Indian Partition’s influence on Ghatak, Ghatak’s unbalanced compositions, and how Neeta “looking” communicates character information.
See where The Cloud-Capped Star is available to watch.
Supplemental Material:
• The Criterion Collection's The Cloud-Capped Star Blu-ray
• The Cloud-Capped Star: A Cry for Life by Ira Bhaskar
• An Anguish at Arm’s Length: Supriya Choudhury in The Cloud-Capped Star by Devika Girish
• Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Ashahani on The Cloud-Capped Star (The Criterion Channel)
• Ritwik Ghatak and the Lost Art of Self-Destruction by Amborish Roychoudhury
• PORTRAIT OF THE DIRECTOR - Ritwik Ghatak | Doordarshan National
• Derek Malcolm on Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star
• Subcontinental Divide: Ritwik Ghatak by Jacob Levich
• Ritwik Ghatak and his ‘Partition Trilogy’ by Biswadeep Sengupta
• Partition: Why was British India divided 75 years ago?
• The Great Divide by William Dalrymple
• The Story of the 1947 Partition as Told by the People Who Were There by Guneeta Singh Bhalla
Additional Audio Sources:
• The Criterion Collection's The Cloud-Capped Star Blu-ray
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