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A marriage is arranged. Only during the ceremony does Shanker realise that his bride, Gouri, is the girl he had set eyes on in the mela where he had seen her with his grandmother.
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The wedding night! The innocent Gouri wants to know what Shanker is doing in her bedroom? The frustrated. Shanker spends the first night, and subsequent nights, sleeping on an uncomfortable sofa.
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Gouri goes to visit her parents, yet untouched, unspoiled, Shanker pours his heart out in his letters to her but they are ignored. Gouri returns, and flies into a rage when she discovers Shanker has opened a letter addressed to her. What right has he to do so? What right, asks Shanker? A husband has no right? He tries to forcibly embrace her, she screams, pushes him aside, calls him a brute. Her innocence still unscathed. |
Gouri goes to attend her friend Radha's wedding and suddenly realises that women change with marriage. She feels the compelling urge to return home, to Shanker. Overnight, she has been transformed into a dutiful daughter-in-law, a responsible wife. Only Shanker is not there, having left for his college hostel during Gouri's absence, Months, pass without any news or letter. |
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It is mela time again and Shanker comes back to the spot where he had first seen Gouri. He meets Radha and her husband, but where is Gouri? |
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Gouri? She is keeping a vigil for the man she loves, the man, whom she so ardently desires, Shanker comes home to fall into her embrace, to his wife who, at last, has awakened |
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