DVD & Blu-ray: THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR (1960) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on its eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing. Experimenting with off-balance compositions, discontinuous editing, and a densely layered soundtrack, Ghatak devised an intellectually ambitious and emotionally devastating new shape for the melodrama, lamenting the tragedies of Indian history and the inequities of traditional gender roles while blazing a formal trail for the generations of Indian filmmakers who have followed him.

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Director: Ritwik Ghatak

Starring: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee

Genre: Drama, Musical

Runtime: 126 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Bengali

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: September 10, 2019

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Blu-ray - The Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: LPCM Mono

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

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New conversation between filmmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Shahani
Stills gallery of Ghatak family photographs curated by writer and photographer Nabarupa Bhattacharjee
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ira Bhaskar