It’s the late 60s in rural Bengal, wants to get an education rather than gets married.<BR>&nbsp;

It’s the late 60s in rural Bengal, wants to get an education rather than gets married.

In a small village thirty years ago the most powerful man is Natabar Paladhi, Ramgopal Bajaj, a businessman whose enterprises include the operation of the local cinema. Paladhi is a lecher who spends a lot of his time obsessively watching scenes censored from movies. His attention has been captured by Lati, Samata Das, the young daughter of Rajana, Rituparna Sangupta. Rajana works as a prostitute in the local brothel, but Lati is still a virgin and longs to find a better life in the world outside the village. Buddhadeb Dasgupta, one of Bengal\'s leading filmmakers, has always been interested in the marginal figures of Indian society. Here he fleshes out a basically simple story, about a powerful lecher who lusts after a powerless young girl, with a wider look at this isolated community and some of its more eccentric inhabitants. Performances are excellent, and though this is a relatively minor work from Dasgupta it\'s often touching and contains a few surprises.