Following on his critically successful 1944 debut "Udayer Pathey", Bimal Roy shot "Anjangarh" in 1948, based on Subodh Ghosh's political drama "Fossil", about collusion of aristocracy and business interests against the common man. Mrinal Sen's 1971 film "Ek Adhuri Kahani", based on story, "Gotrantar", which tells the story of a sugar mill and its agricultural neighbourhood where the workers are deprived of bare necessities and the farmers cheated. Agradoot's film Trijama in 1956 was based on his novel in the same name. Tapan Sinha picked up Subodh Ghosh's "Jatugriha" for a film on the same name, Jatugriha in 1964.