[2][3] This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) based on the same name novel by Shibram Chakraborty.

In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, i.e. Kolkata till he reaches there.

But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city.

He gets to know the dialectics of life in the city of joy, love and hate, honesty and dishonesty.

He meets the small and loving girl Mini and her family, folk singers, street hawkers, footpath magicians, beggars, thieves.