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Starring:
Ravi Kishan, Amit
Bhardwaj, Kuldip Dubey, Akshay Singh, Bobby Vats,
Jaswinder Gardner, Khushboo Gupta, Sweetlana Manolyo,
Divya Dwivedi
Director – Suneet Arora
Produced and directed by
engineer-turned-filmmaker Suneet Arora, Chitkabrey is
being touted as the boldest movie ever made in India.
The film revolves around the
lives of seven couples entwined in the complexities of
relationships. Through different couples, the film shows
love – love, love-hate, hate - love, hate - hate
relations. From the outside, each of them seems like a
happy close knit family. However, it gets murkier, as we
delve deeper into their secret lives. There is a
treachery, deceit and lies!
Edwin Vergese comes
from Kerala but has a mental block about starting his
own business. Wants to excel in the job he does. Edwin’s
wife Rekha’s Dad was in the army and she has travelled
all over India. Since his childhood she played with boys
and always had boys as friends. Rekha believes that men
and women are equal and women should be respected. She
is fitness freak but takes pills to relieve from stress.
Balaji Narayan was born in Vizag in a slum , worked very
hard to get away from the filth . He went to New York,
US after he got a job in Software and was very hard
working. He met Cindy there and used to help her and
that was the reason Cindy could keep her job. She would
finish her project in time because of Bala .
Deepak Sareen was an orphan and he does not know what’s
his background in terms of caste, religion etc. He was
picked by Mr. and Mrs. Sareen when he was 5. Has a soft
corner for people with short comings. Sandhya was a
teacher at a school and her only goal in life was to
remove poverty. Was much pampered when little.
Jayan Patel does not smoke.
Says ‘abe saale’ a lot . Anything he says he laughs. He
worked at a gas station and became a hotelier. Anjali is
an ordinary NRI woman, very professional, articulate,
working class, highly organized, matching wardrobe. She
is very secure with herself.Obsessive compliments to
everything and everyone, takes away the special feel of
compliments.
Amaan Ali Siddiqui always wanted to be an IAS officer
and which he finally made into. Due to his political
connection he joined politics and got an MLA ticket and
won.
Credits & Crew:
Banner - Avant Garde Productions
Producer - Suneet Arora
Executive Producer - Manish Maingi, Rajesh Kumar
Director - Suneet Arora
Music Director - Akshay Bafila
Cinematography - K Raj Kumar
Art - Sanjay Jadhav
Editor - Kuldeep Mehan
Screenplay - Sanjay Masoom, Vishal Vijay Kumar, Suneet
Arora
Dialogue - Sanjay Masoom
Costume Designer - Avesh Dadlani
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Through the means of the
film, the director has tried to bring across the truth
behind the relations. Do they actually have the strength
to survive the test of time or do they wither away or
maybe become stronger , forms the crux of the story
line. In the end, Chitkabrey - Shades of Grey has a
message that no relationship can be perfectly black or
white-it is usually blended into shades of grey and a
strong human foundation makes a better society.
Chitkabrey is about 7 couples and the protagonist Rakesh
Chaubey (Ravi Kishan) invites them for a party at one
location and makes them realize the instances where each
of them has taken unethical or immoral stance in life,
which in one way or the other had affected Rakesh
Chaubey’s life 15 years back.
Joginder Singh Grewal /
Jaggy comes from a very rich family and has gone even
richer by doing his handicraft export business. He was
raised in arrogance and is fearless. He thinks whatever
he does he thinks is right. He has travelled all over
the world. He loves women wealth and wine. While his
wife Palak is not very educated but has a rich style and
has a good taste. Her opinion is very important for
Jaggy in personal life and in business. Jaggy has
employed her entire family into his own business.
The basic premise of the film revolves around the
problem of ragging which fills young minds with images
of intense torture and misery. The film is fast paced
and has a plot peppered with exciting twists and turns,
which has begins with a great note, but then proceeds to
become a confusing mish-mash of events compounded with
loud amateurish performances by the cast.
At times one feels there is an overdose of drama woven
around the protagonist who has the strangest of
laughter. It appears a bit preachy about the negatives
of ragging. There are some bold intimate scenes and
thankfully, there are no songs or item numbers.
- Amarjeet
Cast:
Rakesh Chaubey - Ravi Kishan
Joginder Singh Grewal - Rajesh Shringarpure
Palak Grewal - Akshara Gowda
Edwin Vergese - Akshay Singh
Rekha Vergese - Khushboo Gupta
Balaji Narayan - Bobby Vatsa
Cyndi Narayan - Svitlana Manolyo
Deepak Sareen - Ssanjay Swaraj
Sandhya Sareen - Divya Dwivedi
Jayan M Patel - Rahul Singh
Anjali Patel - Puja Gupta
Amaan Ali Siddiqui - Kuldeep Dubey
Fauzia - Jaswinder Gardener
Budhadeb Basu - Vishwajeet Chaterjee
Kavita Basu - Sussana Mohan
Unmarried Friend Shankar - Amit Bhardwaj
Real Estate Agent - Ehsaan Khan
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