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In Meghe Dhaka Tara - Protagonist Nita (played by Supriya Chowdhury) is the breadwinner in a refugee family of five. Under the burden she carries supporting her family and losing her own dreams. Meghey Dhaka Tara has an absolutely revolutionary soundtrack, which at times reaches an incredible saturation point.

Ghatak followed it up with Komal Gandhar (1961) concerning two rival touring theatre companies in Bengal and Subarnarekha (1965). The last is a strangely disturbing film using melodrama and coincidence as a form rather than mechanical reality.

The last film Ghatak completed was Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1974) in which Ghatak played the lead role himself – an alcoholic intellectual with various nervous conditions.

While very few of Ghatak's films were influential at the box office during his lifetime, his influence as a teacher at the FTII had a profound impact upon the trajectory of Indian independent cinema. Ghatak was an influential lecturer and vice principal at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune from 1966 to 1967.

An artist across many mediums, Ghatak wrote, performed in, directed and produced numerous plays on the stage and in the streets for the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), the theatre branch attached to the Communist Party of India. His significant influence with IPTA is evidenced by his play Dalil (Document). It was voted best production of the IPTA All-India conference in Bombay in 1953. He formed his own theatre group, Group Theatre, following differences with IPTA, staging a play called Sei Meye in 1969 with the patients in the mental asylum at which he resided for some time. His film Komal Gandhar (The Gandhar Sublime or E-Flat, 1961) is about this split within the IPTA in Bengal, during the early years after Partition, and opens with a theatre performance of Ghatak's Dalil, featuring many celebrated veteran IPTA actors, forging yet another crossover between media for Ghatak.

Much loved by students but suffering difference with the establishment, he lasted at FTII for only a few years. Intensity of his passion, which gave his films their power and emotion, took their toll on him, as did tuberculosis and alcoholism. Ghatak passed away on 6 February, 1976, at the early age of fifty, leaving many unfinished
projects. Always at odds with his requisite

establishment,it seems, from IPTA to FTII, his influence was more wide reaching than might be expected that no serious scholar of Indian Cinema can ignore.