Chotushkone
| Chotushkone | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Bengali: চতুষ্কোণ | |
| Directed by | Srijit Mukherji |
| Written by | Srijit Mukherji |
| Produced by | Reliance Entertainment Dag Creative Media |
| Starring | Aparna Sen Chiranjeet Chakraborty Goutam Ghose Parambrata Chatterjee Payel Sarkar Rahul Indrasish Roy |
| Cinematography | Sudeep Chatterjee |
| Edited by | Rabiranjan Maitra |
| Music by | Anupam Roy |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Reliance Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 148 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Chotushkone (Bengali: চতুষ্কোণ; English: Quadrangle) is an Indian Bengali thriller film directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Parambrata Chatterjee and Payel Sarkar. The film received positive reviews from critics.[2][3] Srijit Mukherji won the National Film Award for Best Direction at India's 62nd National Film Awards.
Plot
[edit]The movie begins with an unknown woman writing a suicide note and then hanging herself from a ceiling fan. A man is seen holding hands with a kid and staring at the hanging woman. Then in black and white, portraying the past, we see a party at a bar as Nilanjana (Trina) and her cynical boyfriend Ritwick (Dipto) argue about parties and movies. Then the movie starts in the present where Joy discusses about making a movie with a producer (Mr. Gupta). He calls Trina and tries to convince her to work alongside Shakyo, her ex-lover Dipto and him to make a movie of four short films. Shakyo and Dipto argue about films and then asks him to work with Trina. The four of them meet at Joy's house where he tells them that they have to go to Henry's island, Bakkhali to present their respective scripts to the producer, the common theme of their stories being death. That evening, Shakyo and Dipto discuss their stories. Shakyo tells Dipto that he will pitch an old story he once wrote about a TV serial writer, who kills his characters in a brutal way, suffers from a heart attack on seeing his dead characters, and dies. On their journey to Bakkhali, Trina and Joy discuss about Dipto's downfall. Dipto talks on the phone and barely misses an accident and finds his plot. He tells the story of a man who is a cigarette addict and gets run over by a car when he goes out to buy cigarettes at midnight. Their car breaks down and they take shelter in a bungalow that belongs to Mr. Gupta. Trina tells her story where a dead woman calls on the spirits of alive people by planchette. Next morning, Joy tells them the story of his brother who lost his mind, and his wife who died because Trina, Dipto and Shakyo abandoned his brother's movie due to their differences. He intends to kill them: sits them across a table and plays Russian roulette. However, the gun accidentally misses Trina and hits Joy. He dies. The movie ends as Trina and Dipto go to meet Joy's brother (Mr. Gupta) in a mental hospital where he cannot recognise them.
Cast
[edit]- Aparna Sen as Trina Sen and Madhura (double role)
- Parambrata Chatterjee as Joyobroto, alias Joy
- Goutam Ghose as Sakyo and Animesh (double role)
- Chiranjeet Chakraborty as Dipto and Bedoshruti Dey (double role)
- Kaushik Ganguly as Mr. Gupta, a film producer
- Anindya Chatterjee as Tatha
- Koneenica Banerjee as Mimi
- Barun Chanda as Moloy Sen, Trina's husband
- Biswajit Chakraborty as a furniture dealer
- Biswarup Biswas as Sanjoy
- Dilip Sarkar as Manas
- Payel Sarkar as Nilanjana
- Indrasish Roy as Ritwick
- Rahul Banerjee as Amitava
- Manasi Sinha as Madhabi
- Raajhorshee De as Film Maker
- Debolina Dutta as Sonia
- Sumit Samaddar as Badal
- Sujan Mukhyopadhyay as Rajkumar Mukherjee
- Arpita Pal as Jyotsna Mukherjee
- Shantilal Mukherjee as Police Officer
- Ritabhari Chakraborty as Nandita
- Akshay Kapoor as Samaresh
- Sumit Roy as Abhijit
Awards
[edit]- Best Direction - Srijit Mukherji
- Best Original Screenplay - Srijit Mukherji
- Best Cinematography - Sudeep Chatterjee[4]
Music
[edit]The music of the film has been composed by Anupam Roy. He himself has penned the lyrics (apart from one Rabindra Sangeet i.e. Chirosakha He). The Background Music is composed by Indraadip Dasgupta
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Basanto Eshe Geche (Male)" | Anupam Roy |
| 2 | "Mone Porar Gaan" | Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury |
| 3 | "Boba Tunnel" | Anupam Roy |
| 4 | "Basanto Eshe Geche (Female)" | Lagnajita Chakraborty |
| 5 | "Chirosakha He" | Srikanto Acharya |
| 6 | "Shetai Satyi" | Rupankar Bagchi |
References
[edit]
- ^ Chakraborty, Aditya (4 September 2014). "'Chatushkon' to release on 26th September". gomolo.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ^ "খাদের কিনারে চতুষ্কোণ যুদ্ধ". Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali). Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ "চার-এ চতুষ্কোণ". Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ "62nd National Awards complete winners list". The Times of India. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
External links
[edit]- Chotushkone at IMDb
- 2014 films
- Bengali-language Indian films
- 2010s Bengali-language films
- Films scored by Anupam Roy
- Films set in Kolkata
- Films set in West Bengal
- Films whose director won the Best Director National Film Award
- Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography National Film Award
- Films whose writer won the Best Original Screenplay National Film Award
- Films directed by Srijit Mukherji