Director: Chaturbhuj Doshi; Writer: Gunwantrai Acharya, J.S. Casshyap; Cinematographer: L.N. Verma; Cast: Durga Khote, Prithviraj Kapoor, Rose, Keshavrao Date, Ila Devi, Ishwarlal, Meera, Yakub, Khatun, Mirza Musharraf, T. Zadi
Summary: Based on a story by the noted Gujarati novelist Acharya (author of Daryalal, Allabeli et al.), this modernisation fable is one of Chaturbhuj Doshi’s best early films at Ranjit. The educated and liberal Harbala (Khote) is oppressed by her conservative husband Seth Gopaldas (Date). Determined that her children Somnath (Kapoor) and Neelam (Rose) shall lead freer lives, she is frustrated by Gopaldas’s authoritarian traditionalism and commits suicide. Neelam and Somnath, haunted by guilt, join her in death. The film leaves open the possibility that in the future a less oppressive society will be achieved: literally translated, the title means ‘The Unfinished Tale’.
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