[4][5] The film narrates the life of a little boy and his ostracized mother who is isolated from him as she is believed to be a witch in the village she lives in.

[8] It was scripted by Partha Banerjee, Ashutosh Sarkar and Sanat Dasgupta himself.

It was nominated for the Crystal Globe Award but lost to Mariano Barroso's film My Soul Brother (1994).

[16] It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 1994.

[17][18] It was also screened in the category "Cinema of Today : Reflections of Our Time" at the Montreal World Film Festival, 1994.