The dialogue at the last - " দাদা আমি বাঁচতে চেয়েছিলাম " always made me cry like a baby , because she lost everything in his life , she dreamed a lot but for the sake of fullfilling the dreams of his brothers and sisters she sacrificed everything , and at the end when she get to know that she is having the last stage of tubercolasis she cried and told his elder brother who became a famous classical singer at the end " i wanted to live , why cant i live ? " This shows the pain and suffering of womens of that days modern indian womens , in the last scene of the movie we can see that same as the ist scene of the movie another lady's sandle got teared and she started walking barefoot , same as the heroine of the movie in the ist scene , depicting it as a thing common on that day's society . Womens sacrificed themselves , Always show the the path to his family but always lost behind the cloud ,,,,,,,,,,,,, thats why the name of this movie is also " মেঘে ঢাকা তারা " or "The cloud- caped star"
I got this screened at the Brecon Film Society about 20 years ago- and (what i didn't know) Derek was judge for the best film society season/selection, and we won!
It's a landmark film in the annals of Indian films. It's a saga of survival post partition of a family through one member s solo efforts. The family turns the tide but the saviour dies. At the end spotlight on another girl of another family to show the beginning of the end.
