A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale (E-Flat)
1961 · Movie · 134 min. · India
Said to be Ghatak’s favorite film, the quasi-autobiographical E-Flat portrays the People’s Theater Movement of the late 1940s, agonizing over its jealousies and schisms as two rival groups seek to put on a joint production. The title comes from a Tagore poem in which a girl is compared with a particular melody and the melody, in turn, with Bengal. The script has an equally elaborate structure in which the divided mind of the film’s heroine, Anasuya, mirrors the divided leadership of the People’s Theater and, ultimately, a divided Bengal.
Direction Ritwik Ghatak
Cast Supriya Choudhury · Abanish Banerjee · Anil Chatterjee · Satindra Bhattacharya · Chitra Mandal · Gita Dey · Gyanesh Mukherjee · Bijon Bhattacharya · Mantu Ghosh · Dwiju Bhawal · Satyabrata Chattopadhyay · Nirmal Ghosh · Arun Mukherjee · Tilottama Bandyopadhyay · Arun Chowdhury
Soundtrack Jyotirindra Moitra
Screenplay Ritwik Ghatak · Rabindranath Tagore · Bijon Bhattacharya · Sukanta Bhattacharya · Salil Choudhury · Jyotirindra Moitra
Cinematography Dilip Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Original title Komal Gandhar
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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