![]() The mise-en-scene with the play of lights and darkness and the run-down house, create an eerie atmosphere which reaches a crescendo with the appearance of the giant ape-like creature that inhabits the house. As the setting returns to a dilapidated house, the score starts again, a slow laborious one heavy on trumpets and violins, shrill yet slow. ![]() As he spies a roadside house, he asks the owner for help and at the bewildered owner's request launches into his story. The rousing score, like a frantic marching rhythm as he runs, sets the pace of the short sequence of shots, a pace that will return later. True to the form, the film opens on a tense note, with a man frantically running on the road, not just running to towards something but running away. Premendra Mitra, one of the exponents of science fiction in Bengali literature, had made a name for himself in the genre of thrillers in cinema.
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