 The film won National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974.In this film Ghatak plays Nilkantha Bagchi, an alcoholic, disillusioned intellectual, in the character's own words "a broken intellectual".His wife leaves Him taking away his books and records which were the only properties left when Bagchi insisted she should'nt Durga replied that she is taking this away so that his son grows up with these books and music but he managed to keep a fan which he sells to buy country liquor to start his unusual and abstract ride his first companion was naciketa , Then a woman who is homeless comes to his house just when he was about to leave she was Bongobala a woman who has lost her Homeland Bangladesh and Bagchi describes him as the spirit of Bangladesh, who was driven away from Bangladesh .He then comes across a band of artists at a remote place drinking where they discuss Art he meets Satyajit Basu who is his friend who offers him Scotch to drink which he refuses he asks for money to which Satyajit agrees at once and gave him a bunch of notes of which he took only one and then he told 'Think Think practice thinking'He then meets Jagannath Bhattacharjee, a village school teacher of Sanskrit.