Acting
Mithun's pre-stardom vulnerability — he actually acts here.
Direction
Gautam Mukherjee's unflinching gaze at poverty's humiliations.
Director
Gautam Mukherjee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Mithun's 'serious actor' phase before Disco Dancer (1982) exploded — same year, wildly different futures.
Debashree Roy was already a Bengali superstar; her pairing with pre-Hindi-fame Mithun subverted typical industry power dynamics.