Chatrak
Chatrak English Mushrooms is a 2011 Indian Bengali drama film directed by Sri Lankan director Vimukthi Jayasundara. The film was screened at several film festivals worldwide, including the Directors Fortnight in the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. An explicit cunnilingus between Paoli Dam and Anubrata Basu depicted in the film, caused uproar in India, especially in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, where the film was mainly shot.
The film was screened in several film festival, including the prestigious Directors Fortnight in the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and the Pacific Meridian film festival in Vladivostok, Russia. The film has not received a theatrical release.The Hollywood Reporter commented on Mushrooms that, The films abstract naturalism does create an austere portrait of a crass and careless human society but any larger meaning gets lost amid the films many nonevents and preening nihilism. The Variety review noted the extremely slowburning story, saying, ... the main element uniting Jayasundaras plot strands is a sense of torpor... A review in the online film magazine Notebook praised the film, noting that it artistically portrays ...Cinematic dreams and nightmares, visible intuitions of the world around, visual understanding of what corruption of the society and corruption of the soul can do. Sight amp Sound of the British Film Institute praised the film stating, Disconcerting though the plot may at least initially be, the film has its wild as well as some comic moments that soon win the viewer over. ........
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