Saat Pake Bandha is a Bengali romantic film starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Suchitra Sen, Pahari Sanyal and Tarun Kumar.

The movie was remade in 1963 in Telugu as Vivaha Bandham, in 1974 in Hindi as Kora Kagaz and in Tamil as Lalitha in 1976 and in Malayalam as Archana Teacher (1981).

[1] The story is about Professor Sukhendu Dutta (Soumitra Chatterjee), a well-educated poor orphan, who lives with his aunt in a small apartment in Kolkata.

He met Archana Bose (Dutta) (Suchitra Sen), a well-educated woman of rich family background in a private party thrown in honour of a student of Sukhendu.

Eventually her mother’s intense interference in the married life of Sukhendu and Archana led to a mutual separation.