Komal Gandhar

Komal GandharCast and Crew

Movie"A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale"

Crew

A
Ajit Lahiri
Producer
J
Jyotirindra Moitra
Original Music Composer
D
Dilip Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Director of Photography
R
Ramesh Joshi
Editor
R
Ravi Chatterjee
Art Direction
S
Subodh Das
Set Decoration
B
Basir Ahmed
Makeup Artist
M
Manotosh Roy
Makeup Artist
S
Shailen Ghosh
Production Manager
P
Patito Mondal
Production Manager
P
Punu Sen
Second Unit
N
Nitai Basu
Title Graphics
S
Suresh Chandra Chandra
Art Department Assistant
B
Barju Mohanty
Art Department Assistant
C
Chhedilal Sharma
Art Department Assistant
D
Debesh Ghosh
Sound Recordist
M
Mrinal Guhathakurta
Sound Recordist
S
Sujit Sarkar
Sound Recordist
P
Prabhas Bhattacharya
Lighting Camera
G
Govinda Chatterjee
Editorial Production Assistant

Partition Trilogy

Ritwick Ghatak was averse to the term “refugee problem”. In one of his interviews, he said, “I have tackled the refugee problem, as you have used the term, not as a ‘refugee’ problem. To me it was the division of a culture and I was shocked”. This shock would give birth to a trilogy on the Partition – Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star), 1960; Komal Gandhar (E-Flat), 1961; and Subarnarekha (The Golden Thread), 1962. In them, he highlighted the insecurity and anxiety engendered by the homelessness of the refugees of Bengal; tried to convey how Partition struck at the roots of Bengali culture; and sought to express the nostalgia and yearning that many Bengalis felt for their pre-Partition way of life.