If you're looking for songs, dances, comedy, or melodrama — this has none. Entertainment here is intellectual and atmospheric: you "feel" the city's humidity, smell the earth, and sit with uncomfortable silences.
The film’s visual language (rotting mushrooms sprouting in high-rises) suggests that beneath Kolkata’s shiny new malls and tech parks, older, messier forms of life persist. Lifestyles here aren’t chosen but forced by economic and ecological pressures.
The film’s entertainment value is also auditory. The background score is minimal. You hear the wind howling through empty floors. This soundscape is therapeutic for some and anxiety-inducing for others. It is the sound of loneliness.
Upon release, Chatrak made headlines for its explicit physical content between Paoli Dam and Ferdous. Unlike mainstream Bengali cinema where intimacy is implied via a song in a Swiss forest, Chatrak shows intimacy as raw, awkward, and animalistic. For adult audiences looking for mature content, this represents a form of entertainment that is honest rather than voyeuristic.