Balai Mukhopadhyay

A 1981 Indian Bengali Drama Film directed by Dilip Mukhopadhyay.

A child princess gets a harmonium from her father. Through fate and manager she is orphan, then widow and penniless. The harmonium, sold, changed hand and bringing ill-luck wherever it went. Will they ever meet? Under what circumstances?

A wealthy industrialist, despite his wealth, drinks alone at night. His wife, deprived of love, meets a past love interest, leading to unfortunate events.

Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.

The film documents one of the largest Indian religious fairs, the Kumbh Mela, which is held at the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati. The action is seen through the eyes of Shubhendu Chatterjee who has come to the Mela not out of any religious sentiment but to see and understand people and seek the reason why “….multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining.” (Mark Twain after visiting the 1895 Mela)

A young engineer arrives at a village. He decides to transform the village and the villagers completely. He even decides to get rid of the various superstitions the villagers have. How will he be able to manage his personal life in the village along with the task undertaken? Watch Seemantaraag to know these answers.