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When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

Genres: Drama

Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee

Released: January 4, 1985

Runtime: 140.0

Popularity Rating: 0.209

National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)

India

Sandip Mukherjee (as Soumitra Chattopadhyay) Soumitra Chatterjee
Nikhilesh Choudhury Victor Banerjee
Bimala Choudhury (as Swatilekha Chattopadhyay) Swatilekha Sengupta
The sister-in-law Gopa Aich
Miss Gilby (as Jennifer Kapoor) Jennifer Kendal
Headmaster Manoj Mitra
Kulada (as Bimal Chattopadhyay) Bimala Chatterjee
Amulya Indrapramit Roy

Art — Production Design: Ashoke Bose
Camera — Director of Photography: Soumendu Roy
Directing — Director: Satyajit Ray
Editing — Editor: Dulal Dutta
Sound — Original Music Composer: Satyajit Ray
Writing — Novel: Rabindranath Tagore
Writing — Screenplay: Satyajit Ray