This poster was made for the 1965 same-titled novel by Oriya author Upendra Kishore Das’s Oriya film, Malajahna. Written and directed by Nitai Palit in 1965. The leads of the movie are Jharana Das and Akshaya Mohanty (Kashyap). The movie, which is regarded as a classic in Oriya cinema history, explores a topic that was unique for rural India in the 1970s: love between a married woman and a young man.