The film is set against the backdrop of the rapid urbanization of Kolkata and its surrounding landscapes, particularly the encroaching real estate boom on the city’s fringes. It premiered at the in 2011 and later had a limited theatrical release in India.
The film was a commercial failure in West Bengal, running for less than a week in most single-screen theaters. However, it gained a significant later through streaming platforms and film festival retrospectives. Chatrak 2011 Bengali Movie Wiki
of The New Indian Express called it "a hypnotic, if frustrating, poem about urban decay," while Variety noted that "Jayasundara exchanges the dust of Sri Lanka for the damp rot of Bengal, finding the same poetry in apocalyptic entropy." The film is set against the backdrop of