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tells the story of Dhananjay, who belongs to a conventional family, and his modern wife Chitra. Chitra’s sister Banu and her husband are birth-control zealots. When Chitra and Dhananjay settle down in his ancestral home in the village, a series of vignettes on the theme of married life show Chitra’s efforts to change things greatly resisted by the family.