constant irritant) is a 2003 Indian Bengali language drama film based on the 1903 novel Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore.

[7] In the early 20th century, Binodini is a young Bengali Hindu girl who is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies on the day after their wedding.

She returns to her village and lives there for a couple of months until she sees one of her aunts, another Bengali Hindu widow named Rajalakshmi passing by.

Mahendra's infatuation with Ashalata makes him introduce cooking non-vegetarian food into the household, to which the conservative Vaishnavite Rajalakshmi protests by leaving the house & going away to Kashi[b] to live out the rest of her life.

However, this infatuation does not last long, and the thoroughly Westernised Mahendra soon begins to see that the English-speaking, witty Binodini is more his type than his traditionalist, naive housewife Ashalata.

However, on the day of their wedding, Binodini vanishes, leaving a letter for Behari & another for Ashalata, apologising for interrupting in her marital bliss.

Margaret Pomeranz of ABC Australia gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying that "the insight it gives into Indian culture and customs, is interesting and that tends to overcome the slight impatience with the overload of emotions."