• Bengali | Colour | 122 Mins.
  • Director : Tarun Majumdar
  • Producer : Bharat Shumsher, Jung Bahadur Rana
  • Screenplay : Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Tarun Majumdar
  • Music : Hemanta Mukherjee
  • Cinematographer : Shakti Banerjee
  • Editor : Dulal Dutta
  • Cast : Sandhya Roy, Anup Kumar, Nandini Maliya

Synopsis : The film tells the story of Hirendranath, a young man from Calcutta, who meets Kumudini in his aunt’s village. They fall in love, but marriage is denied to them by Kumudini’s uncle. They go their separate ways only to meet again years later but now married to other people. As old feelings are rekindled, they cannot go against social customs.


Director’s Bio : Tarun Majumdar (1931 – 2022) was an Indian film director known for his work in Bengali cinema. He made his directorial debut, under the screen name Yatrik, with the Bengali film Chaowa Pawa (1959). He garnered wide critical acclaim for his directorial ventures such as Palatak (1963), Nimantran (1971), Sansar Simante (1975) and Ganadevata (1978), and gave blockbusters like Balika Badhu (1967), Shriman Prithviraj (1973), Fuleswari (1974), Dadar Kirti (1980), Bhalobasa Bhalobasa (1985) and Apan Amar Apan (1990). He was the recipient of four National Film Awards, seven BFJA Awards, five Filmfare Awards, an Anandalok Award and the Padma Shri (1990).