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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

• “I am burning, everyone is burning, the universe is burning”: Derek Malcolm on the films of Ritwik Ghatak by Derek Malcolm

• 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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