Chotushkone

Chotushkone
Theatrical release poster
Bengali: চতুষ্কোণ
Directed by	Srijit Mukherji
Produced by	SVF Entertainment Dag Creative Media
Written by	Srijit Mukherji
Starring	Aparna Sen Chiranjeet Chakraborty Goutam Ghose Parambrata Chatterjee Payel Sarkar
Music by	Anupam Roy
Cinematography	Sudeep Chatterjee
Edited by	Rabiranjan Maitra
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films
Distributed by	Shree Venkatesh Films
Release date	26 September 2014 (2014-09-26)[1]
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] The film won the National Film Award for Best Director for Srijit Mukherji at India's 62nd National Film Awards.

Synopsis

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, potraying 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 goes to meet Joy's brother (Mr. Gupta) in a mental hospital where he can't recognise them.

Cast

• Aparna Sen as Trina Sen
• Chiranjeet as Dipto
• Goutam Ghose as Sakyo
• Parambrata Chatterjee as Joyobroto (Joy)
• Kaushik Ganguly as Mr. Gupta (Producer)
• Payel as Nilanjana
• Ritabhari Chakraborty as a student
• Indrasish Roy as Ritwick
• Rahul as Amitava
• Barun Chanda as Moloy Sen (Trina's Husband)
• Arpita Pal as Jyotsna Mukherjee
• Debolina Dutta as Sonia
• Koneenica Banerjee as Mimi
• Neel Mukhyopadhyay as Rajkumar Mukherjee
• Biswajit Chakraborty as a furniture dealer
• Shantilal Mukherjee as Police Officer

Awards

The film won National Awards for Best Direction, Cinematography (for cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee)and Original Screenplay at the 62nd National Film Awards of India.^[4]

Music

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).

References

External links

• Chotushkone on IMDb