Besides giving an account of Ghatak's life, the film also depicts the socio-political environment of contemporary West Bengal during the Tebhaga and Naxalite movements.

The story of the film starts in 1969 and deals with Ritwik Ghatak's time spent in a mental asylum.

S. P. Mukherjee learns that the Prime Minister of India knows Nilkantha and is fond of his works and may request the hospital authority to take special care of him.

In the hospital, a police officer sees Nilkantha and tells Doctor Mukherjee that he is a wasted drunkard.

Nilkantha witnessed partition of Bengal and its devastating effect and in his youth became attracted towards communism.

Throughout the film, Nilkantha's mental agony, struggles, inner contradictions, disappointments as well as financial troubles faced by him are shown.

During a discussion, Nilkantha asks Doctor Mukherjee that should a man perform mujra at a time when the society is burning?

Director Kamaleswar Mukherjee wanted to pay tribute to film-maker Ritwik Ghatak and decided to make this film which is a fictional account of a filmmaker's life and the filmmaker's character is inspired by Ritwik Ghatak's life and works.

[2] Mukherjee used the following books to do the research works for the film—[8] The entire film is in black and white except the last scene which has been shot in colour.

He also told that he was amazed to see the amount of research works Kamaleswar Mukherjee did to direct this film.

Kamaleswar Mukherjee told in an interview that Saswata was their first choice for this role as he felt "Apu da"[α] was perfect to portray the character created by Ghatak.

[12] Chatterjee told in an interview that during the shooting he became so involved with his character that he even faced difficulties to talk to his wife Mohua at that time.

[3] In the film Jukti Takko Aar Gappo too the name of Nilkantha's wife character was Durga.

[16] Sorcar felt, portraying this role was a very difficult job, but, she thanked Kamaleswar Mukherjee for giving her independence to develop the character in her own way.

[4] After a special screening of the film in Kolkata, Anandabazar Patrika published a review in their newspaper on 28 November 2012.

The review highly praised Saswata Chatterjee's acting as Nilkantha and gave it "letter marks".

They also felt Saswata Chatterjee's portrayal of Nilkantha was better than his previous popular character Bob Biswas of Kahaani.

They found the script of the film well-researched and the real-life characters like Bijon Bhattacharya, Sobha Sen, Supriya Devi were woven neatly.