A Bengali widow, a resentful brother-in-law, and 137 minutes of family drama that'll wreck you.
Acting
Indrani Haldar's quiet devastation — she says everything with silence.
Direction
Ghatak's unflinching gaze on domestic cruelty, no melodrama escapes.
Director
Amal Ray Ghatak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects 1990s Bengali cinema's fixation on the 'tragic widow' archetype, but subverts it by making her interior life the actual subject.
Indrani Haldar was only 19 during filming; her performance as a middle-aged widow required extensive aging makeup that she later said 'felt like wearing someone else's grief.'
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