A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
self sacrifice
refugee
poverty
calcutta
Trailer
IMDB
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Letterboxd
4.0 / 5
Cast
Supriya Choudhury
Nita
Anil Chatterjee
Shankar
Gyanesh Mukhopadhyay
Banshi Dutta
Bijon Bhattacharya
Taran Master
Gita Dey
Mother
Abhi Bhattacharya
Crew
Ritwik Ghatak
Director
Ritwik Ghatak
Screenplay
Ramesh Joshi
Editor
Dinen Gupta
Director of Photography
Popular Reviews
16 reviews
margarita nadeau
10.0★ · 02/06/26
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Gideon
9.0★ · 11/29/25
I REALLY rewatched this film and how a newfound appreciation for Ghatak and his style. I haven't seen anything else of his, but will 100% be adding some things to my watch list.
It's like an onion that you can keep peeling forever.
I REALLY rewatched this film and how a newfound appreciation for Ghatak and his style. I haven't seen anything else of his, but will 100% be adding some things to my watch list.
It's like an onion that you can keep peeling forever.
polina
7.0★ · 10/19/25
‘didn't Keats have a verse: the poetry of the earth is never dead. these rice fields -- it costs nothing to admire their beauty. so, what if we have no money? these fields are here. want to know the truth? living is an art’.
‘didn't Keats have a verse: the poetry of the earth is never dead. these rice fields -- it costs nothing to admire their beauty. so, what if we have no money? these fields are here. want to know the truth? living is an art’.
Jacob Dickens
9.2★ · 10/16/25
Relentless in its emotional potency. Ghatak's blends striking experimentation with classical melodrama to paint a portrait of a young woman's mythic sacrifices amidst an ungrateful family as metaphor for the trauma of partition which left millions disconnected from their own homes. Few endings are as impactful as Neeta crumpling into her brother's arms and wailing that she wants to live after she has placed so many others before herself until it was too late.
Relentless in its emotional potency. Ghatak's blends striking experimentation with classical melodrama to paint a portrait of a young woman's mythic sacrifices amidst an ungrateful family as metaphor for the trauma of partition which left millions disconnected from their own homes. Few endings are as impactful as Neeta crumpling into her brother's arms and wailing that she wants to live after she has placed so many others before herself until it was too late.
Gideon
8.0★ · 10/16/25
I'm in the process of researching for a paper on this film. I enjoyed it a lot. It's like an onion, so many layers, and a good melodrama never hurt the soul.
I'm in the process of researching for a paper on this film. I enjoyed it a lot. It's like an onion, so many layers, and a good melodrama never hurt the soul.
