A young engineer marries a young widow with a child by her previous husband. In a society where taboos play a dominant role, the marital life, despite the best intentions, grows increasingly difficult and finally collapses.
Acting
Soumitra Chatterjee's restrained desperation as the crumbling husband.
Direction
Sen's unflinching observation of domestic spaces as psychological battlefields.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness into cruelty.
Director
Mrinal Sen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Sen's 'Calcutta Trilogy,' this film dissects post-Partition Bengali middle-class morality with surgical precision.
The title refers to how the couple becomes 'representative' of social transgression — their private pain serves public punishment.
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