| | 26 | The second Sen film to receive a Hindi release, |
| | 27 | its passive storyline and heavy emphasis on |
| | 28 | meaningful looks was a major departure from |
| | 29 | his political cinema of the 70s. Sen commented |
| | 30 | that ‘The film is partly memory and partly |
| | 31 | fantasy punctuated by bits of instant |
| | 32 | happenings’, and created an expressionist set |
| | 33 | of broken walls and ruins to replicate the |
| | 34 | woman’s state of mind. Claiming the influence |
| | 35 | of Robert Bresson, he also said that with this |
| | 36 | film he finally put the IPTA influence behind |
| | 37 | him, something he had aimed to do since the |
| | 38 | communist government returned to power in |
| | 39 | Bengal in 1977 which made the IPTA aesthetic |
| | 40 | into official policy. |