Director: Prafulla Roy; Writer: Upendranath Ganguly, Phani Majumdar, A.H. Shore; Cinematographer: Bimal Roy; Cast: Molina Devi, Prithviraj Kapoor, Vijay Kumar, Nemo, Bikram Kapoor, Devbala, Manorama, Hashmat, Menaka, Rajalakshmi, Pankaj Mullick
Summary: A tenant attacks the villainous landlord Jawaharlal Choudhury (Nemo/Bhattacharya), injures his son Priyalal (Kumar/Choudhury) and abducts his daughter-in-law Sandhya (Molina Devi). Sandhya escapes unharmed to her relative, the engineer Prakash (B. Kapoor/Bannerjee), but her father-inlaw refuses to take her back, believing her to be ‘damaged goods’. Sheltered by the kindly Promode (P. Kapoor/Ganguly), her husband eventually accepts her back although she feels torn between affection for her saviour and her marital obligations. Based on a story by Bengali novelist Upendranath Ganguly (1881-1960), who was a follower of the best-known novelist of the reformist Bengali social, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Majumdar’s script is the high point of the film, working with a literary authenticity often attempted but not always achieved by New Theatres.
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