He even seeks help from the authorities to stop the unfair marriage but faces resistance. On wedding day, Aniruddh come across Bondita's child marriage, with a groom around the age of her grandfather, and revolts against it. While Sampoorna was getting married to Aniruddh's best-friend Saurabh, Sundaram and Devoleena decided to have Bondita marry an elderly man, to get money for Sampoorna's dowries. Meanwhile, Bondita Das is a 12-year-old Bengali Hindu girl, who lives with her widowed mother Sumati, maternal uncle Sundaram, aunt Devoleena, and cousin Sampoorna. He is set to marry his childhood sweetheart, Saudamini Bhaumik. Set in the pre-independence era in rural Bengal, Aniruddh Roy Choudhary, a 22-year-old barrister, returns from London to Tulsipur, a village where his family practices zamindari, to eliminate customs and societal beliefs which prevent the progress of women.
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