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One side of the city exists 100 years in the past—with book sellers and traditional elders—while the other is a "crazy concrete jungle" mushrooming without a proper plan. Entertainment and Artistic Controversy Mushrooms (Chatrak): Cannes 2011 Review

Premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. bengali movie chatrak hot

Next to him, Sohini, a former child star now playing “best friend’s mother” roles at thirty-two, scrolled through a casting call. “They want a ‘vamp’ who can pole dance and recite Tagore.” She laughed, hollow. “In Chatrak , the only pole is the one holding up our borrowed umbrella.” One side of the city exists 100 years

Themes

At its core, Chatrak is an art-house exploration of the "New Kolkata"—a landscape of skeletal skyscrapers and sprawling construction sites. The narrative follows Rahul, an architect who returns to Kolkata after years in Dubai. He finds a city he no longer recognizes, one that is violently erasing its natural soul to make room for concrete ghosts. “They want a ‘vamp’ who can pole dance