Gitali Roy

Birinchi manages to pass himself off as a sadhu and takes advantage of the credulity of a father and his daughter Buchki. This does not suit her fiance Satya, who fears that her religious conversion will pull her away from him. He will do anything to recover his beloved and expose the sadhu.

Satyajit Ray's exquisite story of a woman's artistic and romantic yearning takes place in late nineteenth-century India, in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely wife, Charulata. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, the film is a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.