Chatrak, directed by Kolkata-born filmmaker Suman Mukhopadhyay and released in 2011, is a film that refuses the comforts of easy explanation. At first glance it reads like a compact, elliptical drama about a couple’s unraveling; at a deeper level it is an exploration of longing, the dissonance between past and present, and the peculiar cruelty of ordinary life when seen through a lens that lingers on faces, gestures, and the small objects that anchor memory.