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Four Chapters
Based on Nobel Prize-winning Rabindranath Tagore’s novella, Four Chapters is set in colonial Bengal at the turn of the 20th century. The young man Sachish (Subrata Dutta) comes from a divided upper-caste household: his Marxist-reformist uncle lives on the top floor of the house and the rest of his strict Hindu family lives on the lower floor. In his quest for life’s meaning, Sachish flees from radical politics to religious mysticism, a search that leads from ecstasy to disillusionment. He can’t come to terms with abstract ideals and the powerful presences of two women in his life. One of them is the abandoned mistress of his brother and the other is Damini, (Rituparna Sengupta) a young, highly educated Hindu widow who lives in Sachish’s guru’s house. The story touches on male-female relationships and women’s social and political position in society. It deals with the war between religion and reason, caste struggles, and the frailty of the human being. Four Chapters weaves a rich and timeless tapestry of crisscrossing desires, moralities, and classical Sufi music into a lean but passionate epic about the eternal struggle between earthly and spiritual love.
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Cast & Crew
Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay
Producer: Avik Saha, Vishal Jhajharia
Editor: Arghyakamal Mitra
Screenwriter: Suman Mukhopadhyay
Cinematographer: Indranil Mukherjee
Awards: BridgeFest, Sarajevo (Best Film)
Music: Debojyoti Mishra
Principal Cast: Dhitriman Chaterji, Rituparna Sengupta, Subrata Dutta
Filmography: Herbert (2006)
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A philosophical exploration of the “basis” of life, Jun 14, 2009
By Dipanjan Ghosh
“Set in the background of an Indian society about a century ago, the film has been able to create an intellectual appeal that certainly resonates beyond any social, cultural and religious boundary. The film is based on a novel by the celebrated Indian author Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore’s writings”
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