Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013 film)

Meghe Dhaka Tara IPAmee aka t ara Cloud Capped Star, 2013 is an Indian Bengali film directed by Kamaleswar Mukherjee and made under Shree Venkatesh Films banners. The film is inspired from the life and works of Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak. The entire film is in black and white except the last scene which has been shot in colour. In this film Saswata Chatterjee plays the character of Nilkantha Bagchi and Ananya Chatterjee plays the role of Durga, Nilkanthas wife. The film was released onJune 2013. Besides giving an account of Ghataks life, the film also depicts the sociopolitical environment of contemporary West Bengal during the Tebhaga and Naxalite movements.

To Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon, a medium to portray struggle of common man He was successful neither in his career nor could he become a good family man or husband. Still he was an artist who never compromised for personal gain, fame or profit.The story of the film starts in 1969 and deals with Ritwik Ghataks time spent in a mental asylum. It shows Nilkantha being admitted to mental asylum under the supervision of Doctor S. P. Mukherjee. S. P. Mukherjee learns that the Prime Minister of India knows Nilkantha and is fond of his works and may request the hospital authority to take special care of him. In the hospital a police officer sees Nilkantha and tells Doctor Mukherjee that he is a wasted drunkard. Another patient of hospital mocks Nilkantha as a disgraced intellectual. Even while he was undergoing treatment in the hospitals, he writes a play and stages it with other asylum patients. ........

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