Satyajlt Ray copes with still more facets of the obviously complicated mainstream of life in his native India in the course of this film. His central character is a former medical student who shares a crowded apartment tn Calcutta with his widowed mother, an uncle, a younger slster, and a younger brother, the latter bent on a revolutionary cause. The young man falls in love, and yet the very happenstance of emotional fulfillment does not eradicate his yearnings for expression over social injustice, or, for that matter, economic corruption. As a character study, the film will be remembered.
Review of Pratidwandi
