[1][2][3] Based on the 1916 novel, Chaturanga, by author Rabindranath Tagore the film is about a love caught between conflicting worlds of ideas.

Set in Colonial Bengal at the turn of the twentieth century, the film weaves a rich tapestry of crisscrossing desires and moralities.

The protagonist Sachish fleets from radical positivism to religious mysticism in his quest for life's meaning.

Similarly, during his later religious phase, he pretends that the widow Damini is merely an enticement of Nature that must be avoided at all costs for spiritual salvation.

When devotees sing and rejoice in that form of love, it is thus a popular and democratic process that defies caste divisions.