Cast: Chandan Roy Sanyal, Arfi Lamba, Kumar Mayank, Elena Kazan, Sonia Bindra

Director: Ashish R. Shukla

Rating: *1/2

Prague is a wild piece of literature eked out on the celluloid, very much like the theatre of absurd, perfect to make the common audience totally confused.

It is a frittered story of an architect student Chandan (Roy Sanyal) who moves from Mumbai to Czech capital Prague to complete his thesis for the doctorate - ostensibly about constructing a World War II memorial monument. But midway, a descendant of gypsies, Elena (Kazan) comes across his way in a pub and he befriends her. She is quite familiar with India and had been to Kolkata. She inspires Chandan (Kumar Mayank) to design a monument for thousands of gypsies killed and buried by the Czechs.


Chandan is actually suffering from schizophrenia and continues to have hallucinations of his dead friend, Arif (Arfi Lamba). Another friend of his, Gulshan always advises him to get rid of Arif but his hallucination remains. He repeatedly says that he is not sick and does not consult a doctor inspite of the advice to the contrary.

There are intimate love scenes thrown into the picture intermittently to titillate the audience to good effect. There's an intimate sex scene between Gulshan and Shubhagini (Sonia Bindra) in Mumbai, followed by another one in Prague where Chandan and Elena get cosy under the sheets. A meaningless all-nude dame's poll dance in a pub is also unnecessarily juxtaposed.


As the story progresses weirdly, Elena gets impregnated by Chandan and when she informs him, she is rebuked and blamed by Chandan for two-timing him, simply on the premise that he had had hallucinations of Elena having sex with Gulshan. As a result, Elena commits suicide (mind you, if I have got it right from the movie?).

Towards the end, Chandan prepares memorial monument for Gypsies and again hallucinating about Elena being alive and he presenting an architectural monument to her.

The director failed miserably in driving home the message. However, Chandan Roy Sanyal did a very good job and seems to have got a foothold in the industry. The other actors had very little role and nothing distinctive to write home about.

The screenplay seems to have been done by a novice as it is not at all smooth and the events seem to be unconnected. However, the use of Czech and Russian language adds distinctive colour to the movie. The subtitles help the audience in connecting whatever little, they could.


The theatre during the morning show had only 9 people out of which four were young couple cozying-up in the otherwise empty hall. You must watch this movie if you seek privacy and intimate moments with your loved one!