And let me say, it is even worse than that because due to the evaporation of the colours of love which were once there on it, it does not remain worthy of making a new painting or writing a new story on it. Once the love is gone, the life is no better than a blank piece of paper. Love is the thing which fills this blank sheet and turn it into a beautiful painting (or a beautiful story). Kora Kaagaz is the symbol of a life which can be compared to a plain sheet of paper without any picture or any colour or any words on it. Once the suppressed love in the hearts of the husband and the wife is exasperated through the sweet memories of the past, they reunite. They get emotional and regret their mistakes. However years later, destiny arranges their unexpected meeting in the waiting room of a railway station when both of them are going to ride different trains for their respective journeys. She feels the depth of her love for Sukesh after they are divorced and her family members insist her to remarry.
Archana realizes her error of giving her mother too much free hand to play with her married life and repents but only when it's too late. Misunderstandings prop up and lack of communication on the part of the married couple aggravates them to an extent that ultimately they become separate. Archana and Sukesh get married but despite their abundant love for each other, cracks appear in their marital life due to the undue interference of Archana's mother in her life. Hangal), mother (Achala Sachdev), sister (Nazneen) and brother (Dinesh Hingu) whereas Sukesh is almost alone and has no living relative other than an aunt (Sulochana). Archana has a full-fledged family containing father (A.K. Kora Kaagaz (blank paper) is the story of Archana (Jaya Bhaduri) and professor Sukesh (Vijay Anand). It is an underrated classic from Bollywood which every newly married (or marrying) couple should give watch. And that's what Vijay Anand and Jaya Bhaduri starrer Kora Kaagaz (1974) underscores. Hurting your partner through words is bad but keeping mum and suppressing your feelings towards him / her within yourself is worse. Then it's the duty of the married couple only to at least maintain free and frank communication with each other (like we should maintain with MS) so that the issues get timely resolution and no eruption gets an opportunity to turn into a canker with the passage of time.
There is no dearth of jealous people or idiots or free consultants or the ones who interfere in your personal affairs without any need or a right on their part for doing so. And which relationship can be more significant than the relationship of life-partners in wedlock. It destroys any relationship (howsoever strong it might be) the same way termite eats up wood. I reiterate on this page too - if you consider your certain relationship is a very significant one for your life, then never allow any communication gap to creep into that. Whenever I guide someone on interpersonal relations or self-motivation to do something worthwhile with the help of networking with significant others, I always assert one sentence - keep remember that communication gap is the biggest enemy of all relationships. The film is a lesson in both love and marriage. Kora Kagaz answers the struggle of intellectual lovers who find it difficult to enjoy marital bliss. This ultimately leads to break in marriage - hence the ultimate- eventual separation.
Understanding leads to misunderstandings and the lovers start misinterpreting each other's sentiments. Though a dutiful loving wife of a sweet husband, Archana is very much the daughter of her mother, who with all good intentions intervenes in the day to day life of the couple.
Seeds of marital love have not yet flowered into sweet joys of wedlock when whims and ego's of Archana and Sukhesh start clashing. Archana's mother is of a different class with materialistic notions of life and she too unwillingly gives her consent to the marriage. This love born out of intellectual impact is supported by the fond hopes of her father that leads to matrimonial alliance. Archana, an educated daughter of retired principal loves Professor Sukhesh.