The Fourth Direction
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| Punjabi | ਚੌਥੀ ਕੂਟ |
| Directed by | Gurvinder Singh |
| Produced by | Kartikeya Narayan Singh |
| Written by |
Waryam Singh Sandhu Gurvinder Singh |
| Based on |
Chauthi Koot and Hun Main Theek-Thaak Haan by Waryam Singh Sandhu |
| Starring | Suvinder Vicky, Rajbir Kaur, Kanwaljit Singh, Harnek Aulakh, Gurpreet Bhangu |
| Music by | Marc Marder |
| Cinematography | Satya Rai Nagpaul |
| Edited by | Bhupesh 'Micky' Sharma |
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The Film Café
NFDC |
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Running time
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115 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Punjabi |
Chauthi Koot (Punjabi: ਚੌਥੀ ਕੂਟ , lit. 'The Fourth Direction') is a 2015 Indian Punjabi language film directed by Gurvinder Singh. It is based on the short stories The Fourth Direction and I Am Feeling Fine Now from Indian author Waryam Singh Sandhu's 2005 collection Chauthi Koot. The film is produced by Kartikeya Narayan Singh and is set around the Sikh separatist movement of the 1980s.
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Silver Screen Award at the Singapore International Film Festival for Best Asian Feature Film in December 2015.
The film was shot mostly around Amritsar and Ferozepur in Punjab, India.
The film plot synthesises two different stories set in a post-Operation Blue Star Punjab in the '80s. Fear and paranoia pervade the atmosphere as the general public is caught between excesses of both Khalistani militants and the Indian government forces fighting them. The first story is about a militant diktat in Punjab that prohibited family-owned dogs from barking, and the other is about two Hindu friends travelling to Amritsar in a nearly empty train. The film merges the two plots into one by making one of the friends travelling in the train recount the first story.
The film opens with two Hindus friends Jugal and Raj looking for a train to Amritsar late in the evening. Having missed the last passenger train, they, along with a Sikh man in the same position, force their way onto a freight train. The small compartment already has a security man and two other young Sikhs besides a couple of train employees. The fearful atmosphere makes Jugal recount to Raj an earlier incident involving him, his wife and their young daughter.
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