Swatilekha Sengupta

Subham Biswas "Shataf Figar" a deft mountain climber goes missing on his dream expedition to climb the Everest. His body couldn't be rescued because of the harsh weather. The absence of Subham creates a void in the life of his wife Mrittika "Indrani Halder" and his mother "Swatilekha Sengupta". The film revolves round the strained relationship between the two women in Subham's life. The bereaved mother refuses to accept her loss and stays in her own make-belief world. While Mrittika, who being logical, has already come to terms with the tragic fact but cannot move on because of her vulnerable mother-in-law. Due to this ongoing tension in her life Mrittika can't reciprocate the romantic feelings of her boss Pallab "Saikat Mitra", even if she wants to. The dependence of the lonely mother on her daughter-in-law becomes more and more claustrophobic for Mrittika. After a year the Govt. takes initiative to find and bring back Subham's lifeless body. Mrittika decides to take her mother-in-law with her to break her illusion and bring her back to reality. The cold tale between the two women and their efforts to overcome their anguish is the essence of the film.

A landowner's wife emerges from seclusion through education, defying social norms. Her newfound freedom leads to political awakening when her husband's old friend brings revolutionary ideas to their door. When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought. —Anonymous