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{{Infobox film
| name = The Fourth Direction
| image = Chauthi_Koot.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Film poster.
| native_name = {{Infobox name module|pa|{{noitalics|ਚੌਥੀ ਕੂਟ}}}}
| director = [[Gurvinder Singh]]
| producer = [[Kartikeya Narayan Singh]]
| writer = [[Waryam Singh Sandhu]]<br>[[Gurvinder Singh]]
| based_on = {{based on|''Chauthi Koot'' and ''Hun Main Theek-Thaak Haan''|Waryam Singh Sandhu}}
| starring = Suvinder Vicky, Rajbir Kaur, Kanwaljit Singh, Harnek Aulakh, Gurpreet Bhangu
| music = Marc Marder
| cinematography = Satya Rai Nagpaul
| editing = Bhupesh 'Micky' Sharma
| studio = The Film Café <br> [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2015|05|15|[[Cannes Film Festival]]|2016|06|08|France|2016|08|05|India}}
| runtime = 115 minutes
| country = India
| language = Punjabi
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''The Fourth Direction''''' ({{lang-pa|ਚੌਥੀ ਕੂਟ |translit=Chauthi Koot}}) is a 2015 [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]-language Indian [[drama]] 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 [[Khalistan movement|Sikh separatist movement]] of the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shankar|first=Lekha|title=Many nominations for Indian films|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article3356293.ece|access-date=27 June 2012|newspaper=The Hindu|date=26 April 2012}}</ref>

It was screened in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[2015 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="2015Cannes">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/61306.html |title=2015 Official Selection |access-date=16 April 2015 |work=Cannes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/61347.html|title=Screenings Guide|work=Festival de Cannes|date=6 May 2015|access-date=8 May 2015}}</ref> It won the [[List of Singapore International Film Festival awards|Silver Screen Award]] at the [[Singapore International Film Festival]] for Best Asian Feature Film in December 2015.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Frater|first1=Patrick|title='Fourth Direction' Wins Top Prize at Singapore Festival|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/asia/fourth-direction-top-prize-at-singapore-festival-1201654841/|website=Variety|publisher=Penske Business Media, LLC|access-date=17 December 2015}}</ref>

The film was shot mostly around [[Amritsar]] and [[Ferozepur]] in [[Punjab, India]].

==Plot==
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 [[Khalistan movement|Khalistani]] militants and the Indian government forces fighting them. The first story is about a militant diktat{{meaning|date=May 2017}} 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/05/13/gurvinder-singh-ghaywan-n_n_7273090.html|title=Cannes Film Festival 2015: Meet The Directors Of 'Masaan' And 'Chauthi Koot', Competing In 'Un Certain Regard' This Week|date=13 May 2015}}</ref>

The film opens with two Hindu 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.

The film goes into flashback. Lost at night in the countryside, Jugal, his wife and daughter reach a farmhouse in the outskirts of the village. While they are frightened to knock at the isolated house, they are not left with much choice. The family in the house, also suspicious at first, later lets them in, as the head of the house Joginder shows them the direction to take.

Later at night, Joginder and his family are visited by the Sikh militants who demand Joginder that he kill the family dog for drawing attention with its incessant barking. The family woes continue the next morning when the paramilitary men arrive looking for the separatists. They turn the house upside down before leaving.

The narrative moves back to the train on its way as the guard asks his unwanted passengers to leave before anyone notices them.<ref name=ti1>{{cite web| url=http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/cannes/the-fourth-direction-review/5088211.article|title='The Fourth Direction': Review| publisher=Screen Daily | author=Dain Fainaru | date=16 May 2015}}</ref><ref name=ti2>{{cite web| url=https://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/the-fourth-direction-review-cannes-1201497808/|title=Cannes Film Review-'The Fourth Direction'| publisher=Variety | author=Jay Weissber | date=15 May 2015}}</ref>

==Cast==
* Suvinder Vicky as Joginder
* Rajbir Kaur
* Harleen Kaur
* Taranjit Singh
* [[Kanwaljeet Singh (activist)|Kanwaljeet Singh]] as Jugal
* Harnek Aulakh
* [[Gurpreet Bhangu]] as grandmother
* Tejpal Singh as Sikh Passenger

==Reception==
The film premiered at Debussy Theatre in Cannes to a full house where it received a ten minute standing ovation, reported film critic Uma Da Cunha in ''The Citizen''.<ref name="ti3">{{cite news|url=http://www.thecitizen.in/NewsDetail.aspx?Id=3639&Cannes:/Gurvinder/Singh/Film/S|title=Gurvinder Singh Film Screens with Woody Allen and Gus van Sant | author=Uma Da Cunha | publisher=The Citizen | date=18 May 2015}}</ref> She noted "the film excels in the minimal devices it uses for dramatising what it says, relying on facial expressions, individual responses and a simple unveiling of events to convey its harrowing story" adding that "The technical skills in every aspect of the film is what hits the viewer. The visuals impress and linger, the clarity of sound enhances every moment, and the striking music track resounds in the silence attached to the visuals."<ref name=ti3/>

Reviewing the film for ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine, Jay Weissberg called it "handsome yet ineffectual take on [[Hindu]]-[[Sikh]] tensions in the 1980s" adding that "formalist attractions don’t equal dramatic strengths in the film." "While he succeeds in capturing the crushing unease of the countryside, full of uncertain, frightened glances, Singh neglects dramatic construction, jeopardizing audience empathy," Weissberg wrote.<ref name=ti2/>

In her review for ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' Deborah Young wrote that the film "takes a very roundabout route in portraying the fear, paranoia and violence of the 1980’s" while "offering an insider’s glimpse into the rural Sikh community in India’s Punjab". Commenting on the minimalist style of the movie, she wrote that "working in miniature..the film pays a steep price in terms of a drama that involved thousands of violent deaths and lead to the assassination of [[Indira Gandhi]]."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/fourth-direction-cannes-review-796148/|title='The Fourth Direction':Cannes Review| work=The Hollywood Reporter | author=Deborah Young | date=16 May 2015}}</ref>

"[[Gurvinder Singh|Singh]]’s directorial choices are often remarkably effective, whether in the camera angles, the long travelling shots, the nervous tension and insecurity transmitted in every glance and reflected in every silence and echoed in every sound," wrote Dan Fainaru for [[Screen Daily]] while commenting on the pace of the movie as "self-indulgent". "Prolonged sequences and themes repetitively overstated – risk alienating viewers to the point where 30 minutes less would be so much more," he wrote in his review.<ref name=ti1/>

==Accolades==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Name of Competition
! Category
! Result
! Recipient(s)/Nominee(s)
! class="unsortable"| {{nowrap|{{Abbr|Ref(s)|References}}}}
|-
| rowspan=3|2015
| [[2015 Cannes Film Festival]]
| [[Un Certain Regard|Un Certain Regard Award]]
| {{Nominated}}
| Gurvinder Singh
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/politics/indian-films-masaan-chauthi-koot-selected-for-cannes-film-festival-2199476.html|title=Indian films Masaan, Chauthi Koot selected for Cannes Film Festival|access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
| [[Mumbai Film Festival|17th Mumbai Film Festival]]
| Golden Gateway of India Award for Best Film
| {{Won}}
| Gurvinder Singh
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/haraamkhor-chauthi-koot-bag-top-honours-at-mumbai-film-fest/|title='Haraamkhor', 'Chauthi Koot' bag top honours at Mumbai film fest|access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref>
|-
| [[Singapore International Film Festival|2015 Singapore International Film Festival]]
| Best Asian Feature Film
| {{Won}}
| Gurvinder Singh
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/asia/fourth-direction-top-prize-at-singapore-festival-1201654841/|title='Fourth Direction' Wins Top Prize at Singapore Festival|access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|2016
| [[63rd National Film Awards]]
| [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Punjabi|Best Feature Film in Punjabi]]
|{{Won}}
|Producer(s): [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]] and Kartikeya Singh <br> Director: Gurvinder Singh
|<ref name="63rdaward">{{cite press release|title=63rd National Film Awards Announced|url=http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/Winners_of_63rd_NFA_2015.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date=28 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards|10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards]]
| [[Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|{{Nominated}}
|Gurvinder Singh <br> Waryam Singh Sandhu
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thewire.in/75734/asia-pacific-screen-awards-kashyap-yadav/|title=Anurag Kashyap, Leena Yadav and Others Nominated For 2016 Asia Pacific Screen Awards|first=The Wire|last=Staff|publisher=|access-date=7 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="3"|2017
|rowspan="3"| [[Filmfare Awards|1st Filmfare Punjabi Awards]]
| Best Cinematography
| {{won}}
| Satya Nagpaul
|rowspan="3"|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfare.com/news/nominations-for-the-jio-filmfare-awards-punjabi-2017_-19598.html|title=Nominations for the Jio Filmfare Awards (Punjabi) 2017|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfare.com/news/winners-of-the-jio-filmfare-awards-punjabi-2017_-19658.html|title=Winners of the Jio Filmfare Awards (Punjabi) 2017|access-date=31 March 2017}}</ref>
|-
| Best Original Story
| {{nom}}
| Waryam Singh Sandhu
|-
| Best Film (Critics)
| {{won}}
|Gurvinder Singh
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|4636068}}
{{Gurvinder Singh}}
{{Silver Screen Awards for Best Film}}

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