If you loved Sholay, try The Cloud-Capped Star
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Cloud-Capped Star has roughly 5.4× fewer votes than Sholay — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What The Cloud-Capped Star is
Poverty Row melodrama, if directed by early Fassbinder. A woman shoulders every burden for her family of refugees. Ghatak lays bare the familial resentments that fester when survival is all.

