Chaurahen
Chaurahen | |
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PVR Pictures | |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | English |
Budget | ₹18 million (US$230,000) |
Chaurahen is an Indian
Synopsis
Chaurahen consists of four different stories - a couple with a troubled and adulterous affair; a couple dealing with the loss of their son and a young man dealing with memories of his ancestral home - that is told in the backdrop of three different Indian cities. It hovers around the simple moments of everyday life. The overall theme of the movie is the importance of forgiveness and love.[2]
Cast
- Zeenat Aman as Woman
- Victor Banerjee as Dr. Bose
- Kiera Chaplin as Lea
- Roopa Ganguly as Mrs. Bose
- Soha Ali Khan as Ira
- Karthik Kumar as Naveen
- Shayan Munshi as Keshi Nair
- Arundathi Nag as Nandakumar Nair
- Nedumudi Venu as Mr. Nair
- Ankur Khanna as Farooq
Production
The initial discussions of the Chaurahen happened in 2002 when director Rajshree Ojha met Nirmal Verma during the screening of her diploma short film. Nirmal gave permission to Rajshree to adapt his four short stories and Rajshree made a screenplay based on that. British actress Kiera Chaplin was roped in for playing a major character along with Victor Banerjee. However the producer of the film left at the last moment and the movie was shelved for a time. Rajshree decided to produce the movie by herself and the film went to floors in May 2005. The first schedule happened in Kolkata. The movie was again shelved due to lack of investors and the second schedule happened only one year later. The second schedule was most short in Kerala with Soha Ali Khan, Ankur Khanna, Karthik Kumar, Suchitra Pillai and Arundhati Nag.The third schedule was completed in Mumbai over a span of 13 days. The film was completed in 2007 in a budget of 18 million[3][4][5]
Release
The film was sent to many film festivals across the globe. Due to a lack of distributors the film did not get a theatrical release. The film was released on 16 March 2012 through
Reception
Chaurahen opened to mixed reviews. Shunhash K. Jha of NDTV gave it a 4 star rating out of 5, ″This is a film so rich in unstated relevances that you wonder why dialogues for cinema were ever invented. Or why cinema for that matter, was invented if not to take us into places of the heart that are barred in Bollywood.″[7]
Conversely,
References
- ^ "Crossroad to premiere at South Asian International Film Festival".
- ^ "I know the box office outcome of Chaurahen won't be great at all: Rajshree Ojha". 29 February 2012.
- ^ "A Decade of Despair". 15 March 2012.
- ^ "Rajshree Ojha returns with Chaurahen, says no compromise this time".
- ^ Kamath, Sudhish (11 March 2012). "Second debut?". The Hindu.
- ^ "PVR Director's Rare". Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ "Review: Chaurahen | NDTV Movies.com". movies.ndtv.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014.
- ^ "Review: 'Chaurahen'". 17 March 2012.
- ^ "Chaurahen: Movie Review - Times of India". The Times of India.
External links
- Chaurahen at IMDb