Ram Chander
Drama basado en el best-seller homónimo de Dominique Lapierre, sobre las miserables condiciones en que viven los desheredados en la India. Un cirujano norteamericano, tras perder a un paciente, se desmorona y decide viajar a la India en busca de paz espiritual. En Calcuta, tras ser golpeado y robado, es ayudado por un granjero que lo lleva a una clínica en la "Ciudad de la alegría", una de las zonas más pobres de la ciudad.
A pre-teenager servant boy dies of carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night. He was employed by a young working Calcutta couple with a small boy of their own. Taking money from a neighbor's friendly daughter, he slipped away to watch a movie on a cold winter night. Finding his usual sleeping corner below the stairs too cold, he bolts himself inside the kitchen, where a fire was burning. The next morning we witness a powerful discovery scene like on the morning after Macbeth's murder. The door is forced open and we see the commotion in the apartment block which is the stage of the drama. Who is responsible?
The story of an old peasant,Bancharam (Mitra),who defeats the tyrannical landlord Chhakari (Dey).Inheriting a dry patch of land, Bancharam converts it into a fabulous garden.The British magistrate supports him when Chhakari attempts to acquire the garden, after which he dies. Chhakari's son Nakari tries a new stratagem: he promises Bancharam Rs 400 every month provided Bancharam bequeaths his garden to the landowner after his death. Bancharam agrees but amazingly becomes healthier with every passing day, repeatedly promising to die but failing to do so.
Adhar
Gangacharan es el nuevo brahmán de una aldea, donde asume diversos deberes: enseñar, organizar eventos religiosos y tratar de prevenir epidemias. Pero en ese año 1943, la guerra está furiosa (como lo recuerdan los aviones que ocasionalmente se escuchan volando sobre el campo), y una gran hambruna está en marcha. A medida que la escasez de alimentos alcanza proporciones catastróficas, Gangacharan intenta preservar su situación privilegiada, mientras su generosa esposa, Ananga, por el contrario, trata de ayudar y apoyar a la comunidad.
