We have seen many films tell us stories of marriage, but never a story of a mother who inadvertently destroys the marriage of her daughter. Kora Kagaz released five decades ago on this day was an exception.
Jaya Bhaduri falls in love with a professor and gets married to him. She is happy with her modest life but not her mother, Achala Sachdev feels her daughter deserves better and constantly interferes in her domesticity, until one day, Jaya leaves her marital home and returns forever.
In the climax, A K Hangal, blames his wife for ruining Jaya’s marriage, The best performance in the film came from Achala Sachdev.