Prominent filmmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Shahani both studied under director Ritwik Ghatak at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, and their own movies have been inspired by Ghatak's work and teaching. In the following conversation, recorded by the Criterion Collection in 2019, Mirza and Shahani discuss Ghatak and his film THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR.