Dans le deuxième volet de la trilogie, Apu a 10 ans et est devenu un élève brillant. Il décroche une bourse et part étudier à Calcutta, laissant sa mère déchirée par le chagrin.
Birinchi se fait passer pour un « sadhu » (saint) et abuse de la crédulité d’un père et de sa fille Buchki. Ce qui n’arrange pas les affaires de son fiancé Satya, qui croit que, en se convertissant, elle ne lui échappe. Satya fera tout pour récupérer sa bien-aimée et confondre le « sadhu ».
Ghetu, a young woman with a dark complexion, is always compared to her beautiful sister (Sharmila Tagore). Her life changes for the worse after her lover dies and she has to face society's disdain.
A hilarious romantic-comedy where two people have their luggage exchanged during a train journey. One of them (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a psychiatrist, and he develops a keen interest in knowing the other party (Aparna Sen). His experience as a psychiatrist helps him to understand the happy-go-lucky and pampered Aparna Sen and woo her love.
A pre-teenager servant boy dies of carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night in the kitchen. The happy household is suddenly thrown into a psychological trauma. Torn between a sense of guilt and fear of a police case and consequently scandal, the employer and his wife expose their petty, hypocritical selves.