The mood and the events certainly, but even the way black and white shots are used, underlines a somewhat documentary – and thus temporally limited – way these sequences are put to use.Mixed Response at Indian Box office.

Though he tried to keep himself away from politics but, he turns to become a Communist under the mentorship of Ramen and Subash Sen, but after a year he feels that their party (B.P.S.F) has been deviating from the ideals of building up an egalitarian society.

Tridip is shot dead and the girls who are arrested in charge of spreading the ideals of Naxalism, are raped by the police officers and Animesh is tortured by the state to such an extent that he becomes crippled.

Finally in 1977, the Left Front Government decides to release every political prisoner; a devastated Animesh comes out from jail custody after meeting minister Sudip (his compatriot during his days at the Calcutta University).

The film ends with silver lining when Animesh unites with his estranged family in a slum (wife and son) with nothing to vie for but with a spark of hope against aghast capitalism and return to mainstream with a new ideology.