This film is a complex and deeply moving meditation on the meaning, in all its varied facets and intensities, of personal liberation and how it folds with destiny. "Bandini" is one of Bimal Roy's masterpieces and one of greatest films of Hindi Popular Cinema.

It was Roy's last movie and also marked the debut of Gulzar's first film song, he penned the poignant, "Mora gora ang lai le".

The ending of the film is one of the most melodramatic and beautifully sad moments in cinema.