Paul Elliott’s review published on Letterboxd:
Constructed around an excellent performance from Supriya Choudhury as a selfless young woman named Nita, The Cloud-Capped Star is a transporting drama written and directed from the consistently socially conscious Ritwik Ghatak.
Set in the suburbs of Calcutta, the filmmaker demonstrates some experimental techniques such as assembling some disorienting shots as he laments the adversities and hardships of India. As the narrative attends Nita and her family, all refugees from East Pakistan as a consequence of the traumatic impact of the partitioning of India in 1947, it substantiates being a richly thematic tale which adopts themes of internal division, poverty and self-interest.
The decaying corrosion of Nita's middle-class family becomes moulded into a dramatic form by Ghatak that's equally intellectually ambitious as well as emotionally devastating. It further draws attention to the injustices of conventional gender roles as Nita, despite her intelligence and perseverance, repeatedly sacrifices her satisfaction for her thankless family emphasising how women suffer within a patriarchal society. There's some purposeful sound editing together with a densely layered soundtrack from composer Jyotirindra Moitra and the components of the film come together to contribute an intimate insight into the culture of India during the period.