The Cloud-Capped Star

The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) by Ritwik Ghatak (1960) was a completely different viewing experience from watching Mother India by Mehboob Khan (1957), though both films are considered among the representative ones of India cinema.

Mother India

Mother India by Mehboob (1957) is an epic film depicting the life of an Indian woman, Radha, from her early life when she just got married till the days when she aged into a frail old lady, having going through a life of hardships and poverty.