"Ghatak chronically takes a closer observation and narrows the storyline within Nita's household, which includes a harpy mother (a barely 30-year-old Gita Dey unduly emotes as an aggrieved, censorious mother consumed by protracted bitterness and discontent, under the rudimental "elderly person" maquillage), a poem-reciting, intellectual but feckless father (Bhattacharya) bemoans the degeneration of the middle class, a younger brother Mantu (Bhawal) and a younger sister Gita (Gita Ghatak, Ritwik's niece-in-law), who in due time, will steal Nita's sweetheart Sanat (Ray) without any modicum of qualms or penance. Only the firstborn Shankar, an artiste-in-molding (who practices plaintive dirges intermittently through the narrative and Chatterjee vivifies a laidback but sensible streak that salvages his character from being a sentimental fool), shows his appreciation of Nita's wholehearted contribution to be the family's breadwinner, albeit leeching off her constantly for pocket money."
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