''Chotushkone'' ( bn, চতুষ্কোণ; en, Quadrangle) is an Indian

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directed by

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, starring

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Chiranjeet Chakraborty Deepak Chakraborty (better known in film career as Chiranjeet Chakraborty; born 2 November 1955), is an Indian actor and director in the Bengali film industry located in Kolkata, West Bengal. He is also a politician and a Member of the Legisl ...

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and

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.The film received positive reviews from critics. The film won the National Film Award for Best Director for

at India's 62nd National Film Awards. The film was a both critically and commercially successful. At the time of 2014, when Bengali films is on ventilation, films like

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and

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also were hits, but Chotushkone was ran for 50 days in major cities of Kolkata.The film was blockbuster at the box-office.

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, 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

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. 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

as Trina Sen *

Chiranjeet Deepak Chakraborty (better known in film career as Chiranjeet Chakraborty; born 2 November 1955), is an Indian actor and director in the Bengali film industry located in Kolkata, West Bengal. He is also a politician and a Member of the Legisla ...

as Dipto *

as Sakyo *

as Joyobroto alias Joy *

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as Mr. Gupta, a film producer *

as Nilanjana *

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as a student *

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as Ritwick *

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as Amitava *

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as Moloy Sen ,Trina's Husband *

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as Jyotsna Mukherjee *

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as Sonia *

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as Mimi * Sujan Mukhyopadhyay as Rajkumar Mukherjee *

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as a furniture dealer *

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as Police Officer * Raajhorshee De as Film Maker

Awards

62nd National Film Awards The 62nd National Film Awards ceremony was an event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presents its annual National Film Awards to honour the best films of 2014 in the Cinema of India, Indian cinema. The awards were announced on 24 M ...

*'' Best Direction - Srijit Mukherji'' *''

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- Srijit Mukherji'' *'' Best Cinematography - Sudeep Chatterjee''

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). The Background Music is composed by

Indraadip Dasgupta Indraadip Dasgupta (born 17 January 1973) is an Indian composer whose range of music is well known in various Bengali Films. In 2017 he worked with Anu Malik in '' Begum Jaan'', composed the film background music . Film director Music d ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chotushkone Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films 2014 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