Chatrak
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Chatrak |
| Country of production | India , France |
| original language | Bengali |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vimukthi Jayasundara |
| script | Vimukthi Jayasundara |
| production | Vinod Lahoti |
| music | Roman Dymmy |
| camera | Channa Deshapriya |
| cut | Julie Beziau |
| occupation | |
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Chatrak ( English Mushrooms ) is an Indian drama movie in Bengali that was released in 2011. Scriptwriter and director is Vimukthi Jayasundara from Sri Lanka .
action
Rahul ( Sudip Mukherjee ) goes to Dubai to start his career as an architect and benefit from the building boom there. After a while he returns to his hometown Calcutta to implement a major project. His girlfriend Paoli ( Paoli Dam ), who lives alone a long way from her family, is waiting for him there . Together they try to find Rahul's brother ( Sumeet Thakur ), who is considered by many to be crazy. Rahul also instructs a local to look for his brother in town. But sometimes it makes sense to look elsewhere, because Rahul's brother has renounced normal life and lives alone in the forest.
The story is about people who are expropriated for construction projects.
publication
The drama Chatrak has been screened at various film festivals such as the prestigious Directors' Fortnight at the 64th 2011 Cannes Film Festival , the 36th Toronto International Film Festival 2011 and the Pacific Meridian Film Festival in Vladivostok . This film has never been shown in movie theaters .
reception
The Hollywood Reporter commented on the drama Chatrak that "the abstract naturalism of the film creates a stark portrait of a blatant and carefree human society, but loses any meaning in the many non-events of the film, making nihilism ." The Variety criticized the film as an "extremely slow developing story" because "Jayasundara's main story is implemented very slowly". The online film magazine Notebook praised the film as it artificially portrays "staged dreams and nightmares, visible intuitions of the environment, a visual understanding of how corruption can affect society and corruption of the soul". Sight & Sound of the British Film Institute praised the film as "although the action may be at least initially unsettling, the film has both wild and some funny moments that the audience soon overtake".
Controversy
One scene in the film with explicit frontal nudity caused a sensation in India, especially in Calcutta, where the film was mainly shot. For this reason, a film version without this scene was shown at the Kolkata Film Festival 2011. Director Jayasundara announced that several versions of the film had been shot, some without this sex scene.
Web links
- Chatrak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chatrak on East West (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Women on top. The Telegraph India, June 24, 2012, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Benjami Mirguet: Chatrak. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, accessed on September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cannes 2011 film profiles. Directors Fortnight & Critics Week. Screen Daily, May 6, 2011; accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Paoli Cannes do it. The Telegraph India, September 11, 2011, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ^ Paoli at Toronto International Film Fest. The Times of India, January 11, 2017, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kirk Honeycutt: Mushrooms (Chatrak). Cannes 2011 Review. The Hollywood Reporter, May 19, 2011, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Boyd van Hoeij: Review. 'Chatrak'. Variety, May 31, 2011, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ^ Marie-Pierre Duhamel: Cannes 2011. Snapshots. Vimukthi Jayasundara's "Chatrak". MUBI, May 19, 2011, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ^ The moon in May. (No longer available online.) British Film Institute, May 21, 2011, archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on September 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rohit Vats: Is 'Chatrak' the boldest film ever made in India? News18, September 15, 2011, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Paoli axed from movie promos. The Times of India, January 11, 2017, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b I'll cast Paoli in my next. Vimukti Jayasundara. The Times of India, January 11, 2017, accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kolkata spared Chatrak blushes. The Times of India, January 11, 2017, accessed September 2, 2017 .
