Malyadan (also Malyadaan; English: The Garlanding, also The Wedding Garland) is a 1971 Bengali film directed by Ajoy Kar, based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore, and starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabitri Chatterjee and Nandini Maliya in the lead roles.

[1][2][3] The story as well as the film take their title from the Indian custom of exchanging garlands as part of wedding rituals.

Next morning, it is discovered that Kurani has disappeared, leaving behind all ornaments and dresses she has had and only with the garland of dry flowers with her.

Subsequently, Jatin while working in his Plague hospital, finds that Kurani is admitted there as an unknown patient in an extremely weak and emaciated condition.

[4] The film must be remembered for its beautiful portrayal of the characters, a successful thematic representation of the essence of the story.

Though the dialogues which are taken from the story are kept in ditto without any necessary modifications needed to turn a written form into a colloquial form, but on the other hand the added and extended part, especially the portion of 'Dhana Malee and his wife' has been very compassionately drawn and very excellently presented by legendary actors Bhanu Bandopadhyay and Gita Dey.

In two scenes, the character of Kurani merges with two other Tagore characters- 'Pupedidi' (where she feeds the rabbits the cauliflower-leaves) and 'Mini' (where she says to Dhana- 'tumi kicchu jano na').