Palanka (English: The Bedstead) is a 1975 Bengali drama film directed by Rajen Tarafdar based on a short story of Narendranath Mitra.
[1] It was an India-Bangladesh joint production under the banner of Film Art, with Utpal Dutt and Anwar Hossain in the lead roles.
Rajmohan (Utpal Dutt), a Hindu aristocrat, decides to stay on in East Bengal, which is now part of Pakistan, rather than migrate to India with his family members.
Rajmohan is annoyed by this, and on an impulse he decides to sell the bed to Maqbool, who makes space for it in his dilapidated hut.
This leads to an uproar among the upper-class Muslims in the village, who accuse Maqbool of trying to go beyond his class.