Arguably Ghatak's finest work The Cloud-Capped Star is a dark melodrama set in the late fifties Calcutta about a refugee family & the struggle of Nita the oldest daughter to keep them a float & together. It is a bitter critique of the family as institution & also of the harsh social & economic condition arising from Partition
- the trauma that defined Ghatak as an artist. With it's sparse script audacious expressionist soundtrack & a startling cinematic elegance The Cloud-Capped Star is undoubtedly a modern masterpiece
- infinitely compassionate & humane while remaining resolutely unsentimental.