grab eyeballs i have no smooching scenes in mainak bhaumiks bedroom rudranil and usoshie do but if i get an offer from kim kiduk where i have to strip am i going to say noforeign visionchatrak is not the first movie by a foreign director to be shot in bengal that has courted controversy between november 1987 and february 1988 french director nicholas klotz was in kolkata to shoot les nuits bengali with a very young hugh grant and supriya pathak in the lead the film was based on a fictionalized account of the relationship between philosopher mircea eliade and author maitreyi devi it ran into legal trouble with devi saying it had insulted hinduism and was pornographic the cases led to shooting being stalled by a court order and threats of confiscating exposed film footage says anjan dutt who acted in the movie i remember shooting in a rajbari near barasat hugh grant had shot on the sets specially designed for the film in tollygunge john hurt was also there no one in the unit raised an eyebrow when supriya and hugh shot lovemaking scenes later maitreyi devi filed a case prudish sentiments give rise to such protests while sometimes its about phirangs selling poverty in india on other occasions its been about their treatment of sexuality what chatrak is facing is unnecessary we neither need moral policing nor censorshipcrab cultureothers point to paolis meteoric rise in recent times and the fact that a sri lankan director has made a bengali movie that has made a mark in festivals as the two things that might have led to insecurity says debarati gupta who has directed hoichoi with paoli i was vimukthis ad a french boom lady and i were on the sets when this shot was taken we found nothing vulgar paoli is being made a scapegoat because of her success says priyanka bose whose gangor has frontal nudity the last scene of this italo spinelli film has me exposing my breasts the film has been appreciated at various international festivals if mahasweta devi can give her stamp to my movie i dont see why others should be insecure i am curious to see chatrak the crab mentality remains but i feel this debate over chatrak is good because it shows that there is a possibility of a revolution somewhere