Manishita Dass

Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as one of the great classics of world cinema (Adrian Martin), and one of the five or six greatest melodramas in cinema history (Serge Daney). A striking blend of modernist aesthetics and melodramatic force, it is arguably the best-known film by Ghatak, widely considered to be one of...