The Golden Thread (1965)

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Audience Score
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NR 2 hr 3 minOct 13th, 1965DramaPartition Trilogy PosterPart of Partition Trilogy
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.
StarringMadhabi MukherjeeSatindra BhattacharyaAbhi Bhattacharya
DirectorRitwik Ghatak
WritersRitwik GhatakUmanath Bhattacharya

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 13th, 1965
Original Language:Bengali
Production Companies:J.J. Films

Partition Trilogy

Ritwik 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.