| The final film in Satyatjit Ray's "Calcutta Trilogy": Somnath, unfairly assessed in his graduate examination, cannot get a job. He becomes a corporate middleman or "dalal". In a conventional melodramatic denouement, Somnath finds himself procuring the services of a prostitute who turns out to be the sister of a friend. Ray deploys various effects to capture a sense of contemporary transformation and shows a great dexterity of story telling skills. Curator Ravi Vasudevan is present
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