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The film was shot almost entirely in the haunted, skeletal remains of the "Royal Garden" housing complex in Rajarhat, a suburb of Kolkata. These half-built towers, left to rust during the real estate crash, become the characters' living rooms.

Upon its release, Chatrak garnered immediate and polarizing attention in West Bengal and Bangladesh. While the film was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and was praised by critics like Roger Ebert, the popular discourse was dominated by the leak and circulation of an explicit video clip featuring actors Paoli Dam and Anubrata Basu. This resulted in the film being labeled primarily by its "hot" or sexual nature, overshadowing its artistic merits. This paper seeks to contextualize the film's controversial elements, exploring why the intimacy in Chatrak provoked such a severe reaction and how it fits into the "Parallel Cinema" tradition of depicting stark realism. bengali movie chatrak hot