Director: P.C. Barua; Writer: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Munshi Arzoo, A.H. Shore; Cinematographer: Bimal Roy; Cast: P.C. Barua, Prithviraj Kapoor, Krishna Chandra Dey, Boken Chatto, Jamuna, Molina Devi, Ahi Sanyal, Sitara Devi
Summary: The poor but educated Mahim and his childhood friend, the rich but conservative Suresh, both fall in love with the same woman, the liberated Achala. Mahim marries her and they move to a village but she cannot forget Suresh. Her smouldering unhappiness takes the form of a resentment towards the orphaned Mrinal, raised by Mahini's father, and receives a dramatically visual embodinlent when their house burns down. Mahim falls ill, is rescued by Suresh and nursed back to health by Achala. On a train (a metaphor for the irreversibly linear course of life) to a health-resort where Mahim is supposed to convalesce, Suresh on a rainswept night gives in to tempration and elopes with Achala. At the end of the film, there is a dubious reconciliation as Achala is shown following Mahim down a dark road. Much of the film contrasts Mahim's 'good' traditionalism with Saratchandra's barely concealed hostility towards Achala's liberated Brahmo Samaj upbringing, which is eventually punished.
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