Grihadah

The poor but educated Mahim and his childhood friend the rich but conservative Suresh both fall in love with the same woman the liberated Achala Mahim marries her and they move to a village but she cannot forget Suresh Her smouldering unhappiness takes the form of a resentment towards the orphaned Mrinal raised by Mahims father and receives a dramatically visual embodiment when their house burns down Mahim falls ill is rescued by Suresh and nursed back to health by Achala On a train a metaphor for the irreversibly linear course of life to a healthresort where Mahim is supposed to convalesce Suresh on a rainswept night gives in to temptation and elopes with Achala At the end of the film there is a dubious reconciliation as Achala is shown following Mahims good traditionalism with Saratchandras barely concealed hostility towards Achalas liberated Brhamo Samaj upbringing