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Chitrashala
Chitrashala
7.9
/10
442 Ratings

CHITRASHALA

House of Paintings

Directed by Amit Dutta
India, 2015
Drama, Short

Synopsis

An old palace, now a museum, stands alone above the riverbank overlooking the city. It houses a set of the finest miniature paintings ever created in the Himalayan region. Hundreds of people come here to admire the art every day.

Synopsis

An old palace, now a museum, stands alone above the riverbank overlooking the city. It houses a set of the finest miniature paintings ever created in the Himalayan region. Hundreds of people come here to admire the art every day.

Our take

Elegantly underlining Amit Dutta’s style of employing visual geometry, Chitrashala gently evolves from being a tale of a museum to exploring the mythological lore behind the paintings exhibited there. This Berlinale short is an exquisite cinematic equivalent of the miniature paintings it focuses on.