A debauchee Zamindar greatly neglects his wife. The decadence of the Bengali Zamindar milieu in the late 19th century, seen through the eyes of a young upward mobile rustic seeking fortune in Calcutta, fascinated by the lonely lady of the house.
Guru Dutt
as Atulya Chakraborty 'Bhootnath'
Meena Kumari
as Chhoti Bahu
Waheeda Rehman
as Jaba
Rehman
as Chotte Sarkar
D.K. Sapru
as
Sajjan Lal Purohit
as
S.N. Banerjee
as
Dhumal
as
Krishna Dhawan
as
Jawahar Kaul
as
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
as
Nazir Hussain
as
