Rajendra Nath Shukla

Produced by the staff of the Film and Television Institute of India under the supervision of Ritwik Ghatak, Nagarik Sanrakshan is a rare and historically significant instructional film made in 1965 in the Marathi language. It offers practical guidance on the correct and incorrect methods of individual protection during an air raid by enemy bombers—a subject of urgent national concern in the context of the geopolitical tensions of the mid-1960s.

A girl comes to Karla Caves to meet her lover planning to elope with him. She waits for a long time, but her lover does not turn up. All of a sudden, her attention is drawn towards a massive statue of a male and a female entwined in each other's arms. She feels as if the carved image is conveying the message of the noble relationship between man and woman. As she wanders about in the caves, she realizes that it is shameful and cowardly to run away with her lover. She has been transformed.