After her husband passes away at a regressive Shyambazar household, progressive Bandana falls in love with her son's painting mentor, Sudipto Sorcar. However, due to Titli Chatterjee's mother's objection, Bandana gives up on her love and starts living at the orphanage.
Acting
Aparna Sen's restrained devastation breaks your heart.
Direction
Roy captures Shyambazar's suffocating interiors perfectly.
Director
Prabhat Roy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film confronts the 'Bhadralok' hypocrisy of 1990s Calcutta—progressive in art, regressive in women's lives.
Aparna Sen and Rituparna Sengupta's generational tension mirrors real Bengali cinema's passing of the torch.
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