Chatrak Bengali Movie __exclusive__

The Chatrak Bengali movie was not a commercial success. It released in a single screen in South Kolkata and vanished within a week due to poor box office numbers. However, it found its life on the international festival circuit.

Director Paresh Vora uses this biological metaphor to critique the rapid urbanization of Kolkata. The new real estate projects (the skyscrapers) are the mushrooms. They sprout overnight on the corpse of old Calcutta. Similarly, the pseudo-Tagore is a "mushroom" version of the original—a fragmented memory of culture that has lost its roots. The film asks a brutal question: In the rush to modernize, has Bengal cultivated a beautiful garden or a field of toxic fungi? Chatrak Bengali Movie

Have you watched the Chatrak Bengali movie? Share your interpretation of the final scene—where the driver looks back and the construction site is covered in white fungus—in the comments below. The Chatrak Bengali movie was not a commercial success