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Chotushkone

Chotushkone (চতুষ্কোণ, "quadrilateral") is a 2014 Bengali-language Indian thriller directed, written, and scripted by Srijit Mukherji, in which four real-life film directors play fictional directors commissioned to make short films on the theme of death.¹^•² It was released in Indian cinemas on 26 September 2014 and was produced by Reliance Entertainment and DAG Creative Media.¹^•³

Key fact	Detail
Release	26 September 2014, wide theatrical release in India¹
Director and writer	Srijit Mukherji (story, screenplay, dialogue)⁴
Lead cast	Aparna Sen, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Goutam Ghose, and Parambrata Chattopadhyay as the four directors; Kaushik Ganguly as the producer³^•⁵
Premise	Four old friends, all directors, are commissioned by an unknown producer to each make a short film on death²
Key crew	Music Anupam Roy; cinematography Sudeep Chatterjee; editing Rabi Ranjan Moitra⁵
Reception	IMDb 8.2/10 from about 4,500 votes; Times of India critic rating 4.0/5²^•⁶
Certification	U/A (India)¹

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Premise

Four famous directors and old friends are reunited by an unknown producer to make a film consisting of four short stories with one common theme: death.² The producer, whom the directors have never heard of, sets two conditions: they must personally visit him at his bungalow on the outskirts of Kolkata, and their films must deal with death in any way they see fit.⁷ As the four travel together, secrets from their shared past unravel and reality begins to mirror the fiction they are creating.³

The four actors playing the directors are themselves directors in real life, and their characters draw on their real lives.¹ Aparna Sen plays Trina and Madhura, Chiranjeet Chakraborty plays Diptya, Goutam Ghose plays Shakyo, and Parambrata Chattopadhyay plays Joybrata.⁴ The supporting cast includes Paayel Sarkar as Nilanjana, Rahul Arunoday Banerjee as Amitava, Indrasish Roy as Ritwik, and Koneenica Banerjee as Mimi.⁴^•⁵

Production

The film was shot by cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee, with music composed by Anupam Roy and editing by Rabi Ranjan Moitra.⁵^•¹ Reviewers singled out the visual design: each of the four short stories is presented in its own color scheme, black-and-white, red, blue, and sepia, signaling the emotion of each storyteller.⁸ Songs noted by reviewers include "Boba Tunnel" and "Bawshanto aeshe geche".⁸

Reported runtimes differ across platforms: Apple TV and Rotten Tomatoes list 2h 27m and 2h 28m respectively, while the streaming service hoichoi lists 1h 55m.⁹^•¹⁰^•³

Reception

Critical response. The Times of India critic Upam Buzarbaruah gave the film 4.0 out of 5, writing that it takes "time, effort and amazing clarity to create a film like Chotuskone" and describing it as an audiovisual treatment of life as an inescapable cycle of deeds, misdeeds, regrets, and retribution.⁶ The Indian Express review by Shoma A. Chatterji called it Srijit's most mature film to that date, while noting confusing endings and red herrings such as the female director's married life.⁷ The review site Bengali Movie Reviews aggregates four scored reviews at 4.1 out of 5, with critics praising the storytelling, staging, and cast and complaining of an over-greedy ending.⁵

Audience ratings. The film holds 8.2 out of 10 on IMDb from about 4,500 votes.² Rotten Tomatoes lists no Tomatometer reviews and fewer than 50 audience ratings.¹⁰

Place in Mukherji's work

Hoichoi's Bengali-language listing describes the film as Srijit Mukherji's National Award-winning suspense thriller.¹¹ A 2025 academic study of Mukherji's crime thrillers places Chotushkone alongside Baishe Srabon (2011), Vinci Da (2019), and Dwitiyo Purush (2020) as films that adapt the noir ethos, with its preoccupation with death, moral ambiguity, and fragmented narrative, into a Bengali urban and cultural setting.¹² The film remains available on streaming platforms including hoichoi and Prime Video.³^•¹⁰

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Indian films (individual works) › Bengali films of the 2010s and 2020s

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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