Kecha Son

The story speaks for thousands of workers on thousands of Assam's tea estates. Behind the miles of green tea leaf raised by their sweat lie generations of superstition and the bad habits of workers denied the light of education. Yet a section of people keep coming forward with enthusiasm to give these long-neglected workers a place in society as human beings, and the film tries to bring all this out.

The setting is the period before independence. Jagannath, the second head clerk of the Rangdoi tea garden, mixes with the workers and takes part in welfare work, and the workers hold him dear. One day he argues with the garden doctor over the lack of medicines at the estate hospital, and he loses his job.

Bharat Borpujari of Dibrugarh wrote the story and screenplay. The film was produced by Hridayananda Agarwala, younger brother of Jyotiprasad Agarwala, on the initiative of the Tezpur branch of the INTUC. The dialogue drew heavily on the speech of tea-garden labourers.

Bhupen Hazarika composed the music and wrote the songs. Two traditional labourers' songs were also included.

The Assam government granted the film an entertainment tax exemption, the first Assamese film to receive one.

In Phani Sarma's filmography, Kecha Son came after Piyoli Phukan (1955) and Dhumuha (1957) and was followed by Bibhrat (1972).