Directed by Jabbar Patel
Produced by Jabbar Patel, D. V. Rao
Written by Vijay Tendulkar
Vasant Dev (dialogue)
Screenplay by Vijay Tendulkar
Based on Marathi novel Beghar by Shanta Nisal
Music by Hridaynath Mangeshkar
Ravindra Sathe (background score)
Cinematography: Rajan Kinagi
Edited by: N. S. Vaidya

SYNOPSIS:
Sulabha Mahajan (played by Smita Patil) is a woman who dreams to step out of the four walls of the house, assume greater responsibility as a citizen and play an important role in shaping the society. She has passion to do something constructive for the abused, assaulted, neglected and traumatized womenfolk of the society she lives in. She gets a job offer as Superintendent of a Women's Reformatory Home in a remote town of Sangamwadi. The job offer raises objections from her lawyer husband Subhash (played by Girish Karnad) and conservative mother-in-law who refuse to understand her need to move to the town and work for rehabilitation of the women. But her sister-in-law supports her by offering help in looking after her young daughter Rani. Determined Sulabha then goes ahead with her dream job.

She meets various challenges in her new endeavor. She starts with bringing discipline in the Home and also discovers frauds that take place there. But she is not helped by the managing committee which is filled with selfish and careless people. She hence decides to take steps against their sanction. She starts some classes to educate willing women and also marries off one of the inmates in order to give a new start to her life. She discovers how a local MLA Bane has been regularly using the inmates of the home to satisfy his sexual needs. Two of the inmates decide to run away but are forcefully brought back to the home. They both commit suicide by burning themselves. Sulabha is then questioned by committee and newspapers for her improper control on the home. An administrative enquiry is set up against her. It is then that she decides to resign and give up all her work and return home.

When she returns to her home she is happily welcomed by her sister-in-law but not so much by her daughter and mother-in-law. She then comes to know that her husband Subhash has been involved with another woman in her absence. His betrayal changes her mind and she again sets off to follow her dream work.

Smita Patil as Sulabha Mahajan
Girish Karnad as Advocate Subhash Mahajan
Shrikant Moghe as Dr. Mohan Mahajan (Subhash's elder brother)
Ashalata Wabgaonkar as Maya Mahajan (Mohan's wife)
Kusum Kulkarni as Mrs. Mahajan (Sulabha's mother-in-law)
Purnima Ganu as Rani
Radha Karnad as young Rani
Satish Alekar as Walimbe (principal)
Mukund Chitale as Gate-man
Surekha Divakar as Farida
Daya Dongre as Chairman Sheela Samson
Ravi Patwardhan as MLA Bane
Vijay Joshi as Peon
Jayamala Kale as Sugandha
Sandhya Kale as Heera, Clerk / Typist
Swaroopa Khopikar as Utpala Joshi
Manorama Wagle as Warden of Reformatory Home

Release date: 1982
Country: India
Language: Marathi with English Subtitles(CC)

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