Details

Release year: 1960

Storyline

A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Top credits

Directors

Ritwik Ghatak

Writers

Cast

Supriya Choudhury — Nita
Anil Chatterjee — Shankar
Gyanesh Mukherjee — Banshi Dutta
Bijon Bhattacharya — Taran Master

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Did you know

• The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #993.

• The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) was included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.

• (starting around 47 mins) The instrument with the split piece of wood that the singer is holding is called a gopichand. The two 'arms' of wood hold an open-ended coconut shell, with one side covered by a thin skin, not unlike a drumhead. A single thin metal string is fastened from a friction peg at the end of the (split) piece of wood through the center of the skin, and adjusted ('tuned') by turning the peg. Plucking the string makes a twanging sound, which can have its pitch altered by pushing the two arms together. Although it seems that a melody could be played on a gopichand, the instrument is used solely as a rhythm instrument, not to play a tune.