Director: Prabhat Roy; Writer: Bani Basu, Jayashree Roy, Prabhat Roy; Producer: Shankar Gope; Cinematographer: Girish Padhiar; Editor: Swapan Guha; Cast: Aparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Indrani Haldar, Haradhan Bannerjee, Dilip Roy, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Asim Bhattacharya, Barun Bhattacharya, Dalia Bhattacharya, Jhumur Bhattacharya, Ramendra Bhattacharya, Rowdra Bhowmick, Rahul Burman, Gautam Chakraborty, Uma Chatterjee, Ramen Roy Chowdhuri, Aditi Das, Dhruba Das, Fakir Das, Nirmal Ghosh, Gopal Guin, Smita Lahiri, Kakuli Majumdar, Arun Mukherjee, Monu Mukherjee, Mrinal Mukherjee, Achin Mullick, Rini Pal, Rina Poddar, Krishna Roy, Mili Roy, Sanjay Saha, Sanjay Shethi
Summary: 1992 157’ col Bengali
d/sc Prabhat Roy pc Gope Movies p Shankar
and Geeta Gope st Bani Basu c Girish Padidhar
m R.D. Burman
lp Aparna Sen, Sabhyasachi Chakraborty,
Indrani Haldar, Rituparna, Bhaskar Bannerjee,
Dipankar Dey, Dilip, Haradhan, Meenakshi, Lili
Chakraborty, Monu, R.D. Burman
A successful melodrama about the dutiful wife
and mother Bandara who becomes a widow
(Sen). The subsequent conflict between her
and her in-laws stems from her son’s refusal to
see his mother as a widow whereas the family
insists on her adhering to all the traditional,
oppressive trappings of widowhood. She has
to leave the family home and take a job. After a
while, she forms a new relationship with an
artist (Dey), but the by-now adult son cannot
accept his mother as an autonomous, sexual
being either, encouraged in his reactionary
attitudes by his girlfriend (Haldar) and her
villainous mother. The film resolves the
problems, not by focussing on the issue of a
woman’s right to her own identity, but by
emphasising and glorifying motherhood.
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