Mrinal is different; she takes an independent stance on several domestic matters, and secretly writes poetry.

To get rid of the problem, the men force Bindu into an arranged marriage, and even her sister considers this to be the best solution.

Standing on the seashore at Puri, she makes up her mind, and writes a letter to her husband declaring that she would never return to their house.

The choice of Madhabi Mukherjee to play the lead role was perhaps automatic, given her stellar performance as a Tagore heroine in Satyajit Ray's Charulata.

Apart from her and Santosh Dutta, who were well-known in Bengali cinema, the cast of the film included several prominent stage actors such as Rudraprasad Sengupta, who was with the theatre group Nandikar and would later become its leader, and Asim Chakraborty, who had set up Chaturmukh theatre group.

Chatterjee had not composed music for films prior to Strir Patra, but was well known as a classical singer with a unique repertoire of puratani (old Bengali) songs.