A woman remembers everyone who broke her — including the cycle waala who loved her.
A young woman recounts her transformation, involving her parents, brother, sister-in-law, classmate, professor, and cycle waala who was in love with her.
Acting
Tanuja's voiceover — every word weighted with regret.
Direction
Saraiya's flashback structure, deceptively simple.
Director
Govind Saraiya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare 1970s Hindi cinema centered entirely on female interiority, with the male gaze explicitly problematized.
Sanjeev Kumar took a supporting role as a favor to Saraiya; his character's moral ambiguity reportedly caused censorship battles.
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