A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale

Name: A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: 1961-03-30
Rating: 3.4
Cast: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Satindra Bhattacharya, Gita Dey, Gyanesh Mukhopadhyay

Summary

Through the microcosmic perspectivising of a group of devoted and uncompromising IPTA workers, Ghatak with his signature style touches on varied issues of partition, idealism, corruption, the interdependence of art and life, the scope of art, and class-struggle.

Details

Release Date: March 30, 1961

Runtime: 124 minutes

Genres: Drama, Music

Original Language: BN

Rating: ⭐ 6.0/10 (7 votes)

Partition Trilogy

A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale
Through the microcosmic perspectivising of a group of devoted and uncompromising IPTA workers, Ghatak with his signature style touches on varied issues of partition, idealism, corruption, the interdependence of art and life, the scope of art, and class-struggle.
The Cloud-Capped Star
A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
The Golden Thread
After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.