Anirudh goes to seek permission from him, a British officer, Sir John Greenwood, along with Binoy and Trilochan who also come to apply for a factory and to inform that farmers of the village do not want to cultivate indigoes. Mini is expelled from Roy Chaudhury mansion, Bondita cures Trilochan and is finally embraced by eveyone in Roy Chaudhury family.Īnirudh decides to admit Bondita to school, but required permission from the cheif of village as there were no girls' school in the village. After Anirudh and Bondita returns home, Anirudh also discovers Mini's plans and exposes her. To save herself from being exposed, she pushes him so he falls and hit his head, becoming paralysed. Meanwhile, Trilochan discovers Mini's evil plots. Anrirudh returns to the brothel with Saurabh, disguised this time, and rescues Bondita and all the other girls of the brothel. Anirudh manages to track her to Kolkata into Tara Bai's brothel and attempts to rescue her, only to get beaten up by Tara Bai's men and stabbed by Tara Bai herself. Anirudh learns about Bondita's mistreatments and rushes to bring her back, but is too late as she has already been taken to the brothel. Soon Devoleena sells Bondita to a brothel in Kolkata owned by a woman named Tara Bai. Anirudh thinks Bondita did this intentionally and sends her back to her mother's, where people mistreats her and even tries to kill her as she is perceived ominous for being left by her husband. As the fraud runs away, Bondita is exposed as his accomplice. After overhearing a conversation between Bondita and Sampoorna, he traps Bondita into aiding him in his scheme to deceit people and take money from them. She eventually impresses Binoy and he becomes fond of her.Ī con man named Brijwasi Babu, pretending to be Lord Krishna devotee, arrives in Tulsipur. With Anirudh's help, Bondita overcomes this problem. Bondita's first problem in her new in-laws' home was due to her drenching bed at night, which was caused by traumatization after she saw her father die from snakebite before her eyes. Anirudh sees Bondita as his responsibility rather than wife.Īfter initial confusion, Anirudh's uncle, Trilochan, accepts Bondita, to save their family reputations and starts to prepare her as Roy Chaudhurys' daughter-in-law. Anirudh's father, Binoy, who wanted Anirudh to settle in London and practice profession there, supports Mini in her evil attempts, believing she can make his dream come true if Anirudh marries her. Soon, Mini also learn about the marriage and eventually, plots to separate Anirudh and Bondita. Confused himself, Anirudh brings Bondita to his home, where his family is shocked to find him married. When all his other attempts to do so are in vain, he marries her as a last resort, which saves her life. Anirudh pledges to save Bondita to Sumati.
But the man's relatives and other attendees consider the marriage to be properly completed and sets Bondita to become a part of Sati. However, the marriage never took place, as the elderly man suddenly dies midway through rituals. He even seeks help from the authorities to stop the unfair marriage, but faces resistance.
On the day of wedding, Anirudh come across Bondita's child marriage, with a groom around the age of her grandfather, and revolts against it. Sundaram and Devoleena decide to have Bondita marry an elderly man, while Sampoorna is set to marry Saurabh, Anirudh's best friend, in order to get the money for Sampoorna's dowries.
Meanwhile, Bondita Das is an 11 year-old Bengali Hindu girl, lives with her widowed mother Sumati, maternal uncle Sundaram, aunt Devoleena, and cousin Sampoorna. He is set to marry his childhood sweetheart, Saudamini "Mini" Bhaumik. During the pre-independence era in rural Bengal, Anirudh Roy Choudhary, a 22-year-old barrister, returns from London to Tulsipur, a village where his family practices zamindari, to eliminate customs and societal beliefs which prevent the progress of women.