

The story shifts to the past when Binodini tells Indranil that Bulbbul has feelings for Satya. A village boy informs Bulbbul about a man who chose a different woman over his wife, causing the wife to kill herself. Satya suspects Sudip’s involvement and tracks him while also growing wary of Bulbbul and Sudip’s association. Mahendra is dead and Binodini is his widow. There are mysterious deaths of men in their village that the common folk account to the work of the chudail. Satya returns twenty years later to find Bulbbul taking after Indranil’s duties, nursing a foot injury that a Dr.

Satya and Bulbbul are working on a story about a chudail they often talk about before Satya is sent off to London-Indranil’s handiwork as Binodini conspires with him out of her jealousy-prompting Bulbbul to burn the papers off out of heartbreak. She becomes close with Satya, a boy of her age, hinting towards an attraction between them that Binodini, Inranil’s brother’s wife, takes notice of, just as Mahendra takes notice of Bulbbul. Bulbbul takes place in Bengal presidency in the nineteenth century when a five year old Bulbbul is married to Indranil, the Bado Thakur.
