Chaturanga (Four Chapters)

Chaturanga
(Four Chapters) â Utah Premiere
Feature Competition â Narrative Fiction
India (2008) 125 min. (1.85:1) In Bengali with English subtitles
DIR Suman Mukhopadhyay EXEPRO Mallika Jalan PRO Avik Saha COPRO Vishal Jhajharia SCR Suman Mukhopadhyay based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore CIN Indranil Mukherjee EDIT Arghyakamal Mitra MUS Debojyoti Mishra CAST Dhritiman Chaterji, Subrata Dutta, Rituparna Sengupta, Joy Sengupta, Kabir Suman, Trina Banerjee
A story of a love that is caught between conflicting worlds of ideas. The lead protagonist Sachish fleets from radical positivism to religious mysticism in his quest for lifeâs meaning. However, his search ultimately yields nothing but crushing disillusionment. This is because he cannot square his abstract ideals with the powerful presences of two women in his life. One of them is Damini, a young Hindu widow, and the other is Nanibala, the abandoned mistress of Sachishâs own brother. The music in this film creates a soundscape to accompany the drama of human relations, and expresses longings and desires â the film proposes an unending journey, timeless quest.