It marked the directorial debut of Arundhati Devi, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the music for the film.
Bhramar (Nandini Maliya) is a teenage girl who lives with her father (Ajitesh Bandopadhyay) and her stepmother (Debabrati Sen).
The three Tagore songs sung by Pratima Banerjee and Chinmoy Chatterjee remain popular to this day.
The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema describes Chhuti as a "lyrical melodrama", and observes that "... it distances itself from the tradition of popular romances addressing similar themes of terminal illness - by a literal process of exclusion.
"[5] According to Upperstall, Arundhati Devi's move to filmmaking with Chhuti was "a major step in breaking the patriarchal Tollygunje Studio set-up".