Aparna Sen Talks Suman Ghosh’s Rotterdam Documentary ‘Parama,’ Prepares Film of Satyajit Ray Stories (EXCLUSIVE)
24.01.2024 - 11:57
/ variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Revered Indian actor and filmmaker Aparna Sen is the subject of Suman Ghosh‘s documentary “Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen,” which has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam‘s Cinema Regained strand. Sen came to notice as an actor with the “Samapti” segment in Oscar winner Satyajit Ray’s “Three Daughters” (1961). She acted in several more films by Ray and also worked with Indian cinema greats Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Rituparno Ghosh.
Her acting credits also include Merchant-Ivory films “The Guru” (1969) and “Bombay Talkie” (1970). “36 Chowringhee Lane” (1981), Sen’s directorial debut, won her best director at India’s National Film Awards. She has directed several acclaimed films since, including “Paroma” (1984), “Sati” (1989), “Paromitar Ek Din” (2000), “Mr.
and Mrs. Iyer” (2002), “Goynar Baksho” (2013) and “The Rapist,” which won the Kim Jiseok prize at Busan in 2021. Sen starred in Ghosh’s “The Bose Family” (2019).
Ghosh is a prolific filmmaker who is a Busan regular with his arthouse films and has just scored a major box office hit in India with Christmas 2023 release “Kabuliwala,” based on a classic short story by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. “Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen” follows Sen and Ghosh as they trace her directorial journey from “36 Chowringhee Lane” to the present day. “Suman has been a friend for a long time now.
When he proposed the idea of a documentary, I had no reason to say no,” Sen told Variety. “I particularly liked his innovative idea of my revisiting the locations of my films whenever possible.” Alongside his filmmaking career, Ghosh is an economist with a flourishing academic career in the U.S. “Once I got to know her [Sen] at a deeper
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