The Cloud-Capped Star
মেঘে ঢাকা তারা
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In a squalid refugee settlement in post-partition Calcutta, a selfless, sacrificial young woman abandons her education and romantic prospects to support her ungrateful, selfish family, contracting tuberculosis and screaming her anguish into the mountains: 'Brother, I wanted to live!' Ritwik Ghatak's operatic, sound-designed masterpiece of political trauma and mythological sorrow.
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