The character features in Cat Sticks, photographer Ronny Sen’s debut film, which presents the black-and-white world of the underground community of junkies in Kolkata. Sen says, “There was this entire generation of brown sugar addicts in Salt Lake, Calcutta, during the ’90s and the decade later. Cat Sticks, which was primarily shot around Salt Lake, feels more ‘experiential’, which didn’t require a ‘ton of research’, he says. They’re from different sections of the society, and they have just one purpose: they want to smoke brown sugar and get high,” he says. “You go to any rehab clinic, out of every 100 people you will find that almost 96-97 people are brown sugar addicts,” he says.

Source: Indian Express February 05, 2019 18:56 UTC