Chowrasta Movie Review

Director: Anjan Dutt , Buddhadev Dasgupta , Aparna Sen
Producer: S.D. Ahuja
Written by: Anjan Dutt

Victor Banerjee - Jimmy
Atul Kulkarni - Kenny
Roopali Ganguly - Nandana
Naved Aslam - Sunny
Aparajita – Rita

Movie Details Genre: Drama
Language: English/Hindi
Release Status and date: Released on Apr 17, 2009

CHOWRASTA is an interesting flick. It's like a well-written novel you read on a lazy afternoon.The build-up of the assortment of characters is subtle and their story interestingly narrated. Victor Bannerjee, the protagonist, if you may call him so, begins the narration, which then moves into sizing up every character. There's a couple who have eloped who are on their honeymoon in Darjeeling; there's a wife, long divorced, a struggling Bollywood actress, who surfaces from Mumbai to meet her ex-husband; there's a guy fleeing from himself, caught unwittingly with unscrupulous characters and of course, there's Victor Banerjee who is lamenting the loss of his wife.

“Chowrasta” is the story with four corners. Nandana, a fading Bollywood star, discovers that she is living on borrowed time, so she is in search of someone who will look after her twelve year old son.

Rita and Sunny realize immediately after their elopement, that marriage is really not a bed of roses. Rita’s expectations from Sunny are different from what he really is capable of.

Jimmy the planter from Darjeeling finds it difficult to face the loneliness that surrounds him, after the death of his wife. He even contemplates ending his life.

Kenny, who is a terrorist on the run realizes, all that he had given to the cause not worth the sacrifice. Nobody really cared whether he was dead or alive.

You never lose anything on the hills, you only find something. All of them found what they wanted in Chowrasta Crossroads of Love.