Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.
He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.
Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.
On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.
In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.
Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.
After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.
This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.
The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.
About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."
In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
藏区的风景真的很美，还有一点印象很深刻的就是电影配乐，和画面结合的很好也很好听。
演员们选择的挺不错的，听着口音没有任何不对的地方
孩子们都那么懂事真的觉得太理想化了，都太乖了，调皮的也不是没有但也就那样了
总觉得这个男主角有点眼熟，剧情还是很不错的，不过感觉男主角的演技有待提升啊
到“回来了，还走么？”就结束多好，大可不必这么悲剧。
朗措太可怜了吧，如果以他为主视角看整个电影会更加的感人吧
其实人就是这样一种感性动物，当感情到来的时候，挡也挡不住
孩子们这么渴望知识喜欢老师，是我从小到大都不敢这么相信的。景色是真美
后半部分稍感仓促，2小时的片长放入这一段人生，或许怎么样都会觉得不够。
转折还是有点刻意生硬吧，不够自然，事件发生和解决感觉都是强行安排，还有很多不必要的盒饭。
狼群那里的特效虽然有点拉胯，但是女主这里很机智很淡定我直接爱了，漂亮又有能力！
僧格为了救人献出了自己宝贵的生命，这种舍己为人的美好品质值得我们每个人敬佩。
女主哥哥死那里，真的看哭我了虽然有预料到，但是看到这样的剧情，真的还是很难过
虽然没有惊心动魄的情节，但是胜在真实，任何环境之下只要有坚定善良的心，都可以做出一番事业
一开始韩老师也只是一个普通的大学生，虽然后来变成了校长，可还是觉得他应该是那个意气风发的少年，一切都太快了
很感人。一定要有一个既有学识又有爱心的人留下来，才能让更多藏区孩子走出去。
支教老师的苦不仅在于条件艰苦，更是与思想作斗争，生活习惯的不同，贫困落后食不果腹，居住地漏风漏雨，还要和野生动物还有捕猎者对抗，克服这些以后，还是要面临和昔日好友、家庭之间的选择。忍不住落泪啊。
我会间或疑问，人这一生为了什么？
感觉这部电影的成功在于选角特别的不错，他们虽然都不是特别出名的演员，但演技都很到位，特别是韩老师
若是上无老母，下无妻儿，谁会不愿意燃烧自己的青春呢，支教很好，可是压力太大了，没有金钱的维持，家庭都要垮掉，但是会尽我所能帮助山区孩子及老师
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