Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta; Writer: Buddhadev Dasgupta; Producer: K. Bikram Singh; Cinematographer: Kamal Nayak; Editor: Ujjal Nandy; Cast: Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Deepti Naval, M.K. Raina, Anil Chatterjee, Mahesh Bhatt, Satya Bannerjee, Shyamanand Jalan, Anuradha Tandon
Duration: 01:46:23; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 46.740; Saturation: 0.078; Lightness: 0.233; Volume: 0.118; Cuts per Minute: 23.422
Summary: The final part of the director’s trilogy dealing
with contemporary middle-class Bengali
politics (Dooratwa, 1978; Grihajuddha,
1982) is his first film in Hindi. Set in Calcutta in
the early 70s, the central figure is a left activist
and school teacher, Hemanta. Narrowly
escaping being murdered by the police,
Hemanta finds his political organisation in
disarray and flees to Bombay where he leads a
quiet life though his nerves are still shattered
by his Calcutta experiences. Through a friend,
Rakesh, Hemanta meets Jaya and they marry.
To help raise money to buy a flat, Jaya
reluctantly becomes a model for advertisement
photographs. Obsessed with the desire to
secure a middle-class lifestyle, Hemanta forces
Jaya to take on demeaning photographic
assignments and, to impose his will on her, he
rapes her. Jaya commits suicide and Hemanta
finds himself facing the police again.
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