Your cousin wants your money. Your mind is broken. Bengali family drama gets MESSY.
Distraught after his wife dies, Ashoke loses his mental balance. Taking this to be a good opportunity to usurp his wealth, Dilip, his cousin, tortures him.
Acting
Tapas Paul unhinged — unglamorous, raw, uncomfortable.
Direction
Sukhen Das directs himself — total auteur vanity project.
Director
Sukhen Das
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sukhen Das was a Bengali cinema workhorse who often cast himself in villain roles he directed — here he plays the tormentor AND called the shots.
1992 Bengali cinema was dominated by family melodramas; this film's 'vulnerable man destroyed by relatives' plot mirrors real anxieties about joint family property disputes.
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