Meghe ḍhākā tārā
(DVD)

Title from screen and credits from subtitles and container. Title and credits in Bengali script.

Title from title frame.

From a story by Shaktipada Rajguru.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration; new conversation between filmmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Shahani; stills gallery; new English subtitle translation; plus, an essay by film scholar Ira Bhaskar.

Cinematography, Dinen Gupta ; editing, Ramesh Joshi ; musical direction, Jyotirindra Moitra ; "On that night" written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore.

Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Gita Dey, Gita Ghatak, Dwiju Bhawal, Niranjan Ray.

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. 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.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital monaural.

In Bengali with optional English subtitles.