MUMBAI: PVR Cinemas’ recently launched alternative programming initiative, PVR Director’s Rare banner, will release Rajshree Ojha’s Chaurahen (Crossroads) on 16 March.

The film will release in PVR cinemas at Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Gurgaon and Chennai.

Chaurahen features three separate stories set in three different cities in contemporary India. There is a troubled adulterous affair in Kolkata, a family dealing with the loss of a son in Kochi and a young man in Mumbai dealing with memories of his ancestral home.

The film stars Soha Ali Khan, Ankur Khanna, Victor Banerjee, Kiera Chaplin, Roopa Ganguly, Zeenat Aman, Shayan Munshi, Karthik Kumar, Suchitra Pillai, Arundathi Nag, Nedumudi Venu, and Siddharth Makkad among others.

Earlier, the film travelled to several film festivals in 2007 like South Asian International Film Festival – New York, Mumbai International Film Festival (MAMI), Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival and Cairo International Film Festival among others.

PVR Director’s Rare has been launched to support the theatrical release of critically acclaimed small independent films.