The film is based on a novel Goynar Baksho and a short story Rashmonir Sonadana, both written by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and published in Desh magazine.

Its original owner is Rashmani, the daughter of a Bengali Hindu zamindar family from Faridpur, who was married off at the age of 11 & was tragically widowed within a few months of her marriage.

As time progresses, the family's accumulated wealth steadily decreases due to the male members of the family refusing to work for a living in order to protect their aristocratic heritage, exacerbated by the cost of legal fees incurred in resolving the property dispute between Rashmani's two brothers and the gambling addiction of Chandan's elder brother.

When Somalata came to know about the existence of Chandan's mistress, she complained about it to Rashmani's ghost, who then encouraged her to forge an extra-marital affair.

Rashmani's lover Banwarilal (alias Benu) repeatedly crossed the border to provide supplies to the Mukti Bahini.

Sen told–[2] When I first read the book way back in 1993, I instantly decided to turn it into celluloid, but the delay was due to not getting the right production house to finance the film.