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Starring: Victor Banerjee,
Atul Kulkarni, Roopa Ganguly, Naved Aslam, Aparajit,
Arijit Dutta, Bhaskar Pradhan, Vikas Pradhan, Neil Bose
Directors: Anjan Dutt, Budhdev Das Gupta, Mrinal
Sen, Aparna Sen
Chowrasta means the meeting point of four roads. The
movie deals with mainly four corners held by various
people. This film depicts the sundry lives of these
commoners and then what happens when they criss-cross
each other at the chowrasta (four roads) at the central
point of Darjeeling.
The characters are Nandana (Roopa Ganguly), a fading
star from Bollywood with a twelve year old son, the
honeymooning couple Rita and Sunny (Naved Aslam and
Aparajita), the tea planter Jimmy (Victor Banerjee) from
Darjeeling, and the terrorist Kenny (Atul Kulkarni) on
run.
Four parallel stories, all of them interlace on
Darjeeling’s main street, going their way. As people
say, you never lose anything on the hills, instead you
only find something. All of them found what they wanted
at the crossroads of their life.
Victor Bannerjee is aptly cast as the lamenting
melancholic old man who mourn his wife's death. Roopa
Ganguly has beautifully portrayed the middle aged
flustered actress, who tries to find solutions to her
troubles, only to see her problems aggravate further. a
Aparajita and Naved Aslam as the eloped couple are fine,
while Atul Kulkarni has yet again come up with a
credible performance as a terrorist on the run.
Chowrasta is
set in picturesque Darjeeling, a lovely hill station,
which itself lends freshness in the story. Beauty of this
film is that each character is trying to find a new
stability in their disconcerted lives. It is a serious
drama for niche audience who can analyze, assess and
interpret at several instances in the narrative ad they
unfold.
- Amarjeet
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Jimmy, a distraught tea-planter writes love letters to
his deceased wife. Loneliness has gripped him as he even
contemplates ending his life.
As Nandana discovers that there is not much left in her
life, she is in search of someone who will look after her
twelve year old son. She has had so many affairs that she
doesn’t know who the actual father of her son is. Now she
has come to confront her divorced husband, a strict school
teacher.
A squabbling couple, Rita and Sunny begin to face
differences in reality and at one time even wondering
whether it was all worth it. Rita has realized that her
expectations from Sunny are different from what he really
is capable of.
Kenny, a terrorist on the run, who sought the formation of
Gorkhaland, evading the law, realizes after all that he
had given to the cause, is not worth the sacrifice. None
of his people cared whether he was dead or alive.
Cast
Jimmy - Victor Banerjee
Kenny - Atul Kulkarni
Nandana - Roopa Ganguly
Sunny - Naved Aslam
Rita - Aparajita
Jojo - Arijit Dutta
ArunTamang - Bhaskar Pradhan
Sonam Shiring - Vikas Pradhan
Rick - Neil Bose
Dip - Saswata Chatterjee
Purang Gongha
Credits & Crew:
Banner - Unilux Films
Producer - S.D. Ahuja
Directors - Anjan Dutt, Budhdev Das Gupta, Mrinal Sen,
Aparna Sen
Story / Writer - Anjan Dutt
Cinematography - Indranil Mukherjee
Music Director - Neel Dutt
Editor - Arghyakamal Mitra
Costume - Chanda Dutt
Singers - Kunal Ganjawala, Anjan Dutt |
