Unlike The Adversary’s Siddhartha running, conscience-stricken, through the streets of Calcutta, the westernized Syamalendu exists in a bubble, disconnected from his own city and its struggles as he rises effortlessly to its top. Charming, bright and handsome, he experiences his life’s path as natural and inevitable. As in Days and Nights in the Forest, Sharmila Tagore appears again as the conscience of the film, though here, as Syamalendu’s sister-in-law Tutul, she is completely captivated by him, and they enjoy a mutual attraction while he gives her a tour of his and his wife’s newly acquired luxurious lifestyle. Based on Mani Shankar Mukherjee’s novel, the second film in Ray’s Calcutta trilogy documents Syamalendu’s fluid transition into corruption; its systemic encouragement in the corporate world; and Tutul’s growing realization of the immeasurable void that exists between them.

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