A father's death, a rich kid's fault, and one girl's impossible choice — Bengali cinema doesn't flinch.
The young daughter of a struggling family is forced to get a job when her father is killed in an auto accident caused by an industrialist's son.
Acting
Chhabi Biswas brings crushing weight to every scene he's in.
Direction
Tarafdar refuses easy catharsis — the pain lingers deliberately.
Director
Rajen Tarafdar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the Parallel Cinema movement rejecting Bombay escapism for unflinching social realism.
Tarafdar, primarily known as a novelist, brought literary density to this sophomore feature — notice how the accident itself is almost off-screen, because the aftermath is the real story.
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