The Rebel

An allegorical meditation on contemporary political attitudes expressed through the social institution of marriage. Three college friends—Vijay, the liberal; Loknath, the conservative; and Jagdish, a careerist—embody divergent approaches to sexuality and matrimonial norms. Vijay comes to the aid of a damsel in distress and marries her. Later, his son Anand mirrors his father’s path by rescuing Jagdish’s daughter from a bandit and marrying her, thereby resolving the rifts among the trio.