Movie is exploration of all sufferings women have gone through in Indian history. Society was male dominated and superstitious. Women were used as toy of pleasure and slaved to work home chores.
A acclaimed Bengali director Aparna Sen has sketched a portrayal of a dumb woman in area, women were forced to burn alive in funeral pyre of her husband. They hold with superstition that a wife will follow her husband and accompany even in heaven.
First shot of movie is very long shot showing a widow is taken in palakhi towards a funeral and she for thrown into fire. The event is watched by a dumb girl, Uma by hiding behind the tree. This role of girl is played by well-known Indian actress, Shabana Azami. Rest movie tells how this innocent girl was forced to marry with a tree, because she was out of puberty and lost her youth. Her childhood, most of day is spent across tree trunk. That tree remained her companion. She hide herself in tree trunk even ever she was punished by her parents. At the time of heavy rainfall, she died along the tree is uprooted during night storm.
A acclaimed Bengali director Aparna Sen has sketched a portrayal of a dumb woman in area, women were forced to burn alive in funeral pyre of her husband. They hold with superstition that a wife will follow her husband and accompany even in heaven.
First shot of movie is very long shot showing a widow is taken in palakhi towards a funeral and she for thrown into fire. The event is watched by a dumb girl, Uma by hiding behind the tree. This role of girl is played by well-known Indian actress, Shabana Azami. Rest movie tells how this innocent girl was forced to marry with a tree, because she was out of puberty and lost her youth. Her childhood, most of day is spent across tree trunk. That tree remained her companion. She hide herself in tree trunk even ever she was punished by her parents. At the time of heavy rainfall, she died along the tree is uprooted during night storm.