Cat Sticks

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Cat Sticks

2019

1h 34m

Drama

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Desperate addicts search for their heroin fix on a rainy night in Kolkata, India.

Brittany Patrice Witherspoon

Pop Culture Reviews

Jul 14, 2024

5/5

As far as rich and raw storytelling goes, Sen’s Cat Sticks is exemplary.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Oct 26, 2020

A bleak (if often bleakly humorous) series of narrative fragments involving junkies in the slums and outskirts of Calcutta.

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

Jun 8, 2020

This sadly timely doc from director Ronny Sen is a haunting account of addicts struggling against heroin addiction...

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C.H. Newell

Father Son Holy Gore

May 1, 2019

5/5

Sen's film is a collision of the highs and lows of society, using the national landscape as backdrop for these personal yet simultaneously universal tales of devastation.

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Jak-Luke Sharp

Film Inquiry

Mar 20, 2019

The ying-yang energy of both poignant heart and strident bitterness in Cat Sticks is strikingly effective. The flip-flop approach, much like the disease of addiction itself is conveyed in a discerning wise and endearing manner.

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J Hurtado

ScreenAnarchy

Jan 30, 2019

Cat Sticks makes poetry of pain and beauty of desperation

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Sayak S

@RT56723876 Sep 23, 2025

A movie that write a saga of pain and poetry in the minds of heroine addicts. The dance of doom to find an used vein tells you about the disbalanced life of a heroin addict that can crash down anytime. A highly social and strikingly political in somecases Eg. Govt. abandoned Airplane resembles the addicts who are abandoned by the Govt. with no proper schemes and help system in place. And tremendous camera. Sometimes it shows addiction as a fearsome, hapless trait with total demise awaiting and other times a dance of the euphoria, the ultimate high which the addicts cherish for. Overall, a must watch for the fans of sub altarn films and persons who are or have sympathy for the addicts that are not to be considered untouchables.

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Desperate addicts search for their heroin fix on a rainy night in Kolkata, India.

Director: Ronny Sen
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Bangla
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 19, 2020
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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