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  Aparna Sen Biography from Rumela's Web
Aparna Sen, a film director who was born in 1945 in Calcutta is a great director of the serious Indian cinema.
Twenty years of her appearance in cinema, Aparna Sen made her first movie “36 Chawranghee Lane” which is an English political movie that was the birth certificate of a realistic film director who cares for details, though she focussed in the beginning, on women issues in most cases.
Even behind the limelight, Aparna Sen or Rinadi as she is affectionately called, is the perfect friend, homemaker, daughter, mother and grandmother.
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 Aparna Sen's 15 Park Avenue by Dr. Amitabh Mitra
Aparna Sen, actor, director and a poet makes this film for an intelligentsia who has to dare to question the conventional therapy laid down in the treatment of a mentally handicapped and how much sane we might be at the present moment.
Iyer and now 15 Park Avenue, Aparna Sen, a resident of Kolkata to its heart brings forth a story of an upper intellectual class Bengali family of Kolkata who has a family member suffering from schizophrenia and epilepsy.
Aparna Sen based this film on a true life happening that gave the impetus to surround images to the final making of the film.
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 webindia123.com-personalities of India - Actress, director, writer, Aparna Sen
Born in 25th October, 1945 in Kolkata, West Bengal, Aparna Sen is the daughter of veteran critic and filmmaker Chidananda Dasgupta.
Aparna Sen or Rinadi as she is affectionately called, is a perfect example of a rare combination of beauty and brains.
Aparna Sen, who was listed among the 100 best looking Indian women of the century is currently the Editor of a famous Bengali Monthly women's Magazine 'Sananda' published by Ananda Bazar Patrika group, where her editorials tackle social issues.
www.webindia123.com /personal/film/aparna.htm   (704 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT, Movies: Aparna Sen directs and stars in Paromitar Ekdin
Aparna Sen was filming an elaborate Hindu ceremony done during the last rites of a person and almost the entire cast had come together.
Sen plays Sanaka, the gorgeous matriarch, a woman of great intelligence and personality who spends most of her life within the confines of a crumbling old Calcutta house.
Although Sen's parents (her father Chidananda Dasgupta is a critically-acclaimed film-maker) were heavily into the film society movement, which was why she was initiated early to quality films from the West, Ray was her guiding light.
www.indiaabroad.com /movies/1999/jun/04apa.htm   (1438 words)

  
 Aparna Sen - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From 1986 to 2005, Aparna Sen was editor of the fortnightly Sananda,...
Aparna Sen, a film director who was born in 1945 in Calcutta is a great director of...
In her early youth, Aparna Sen was impressed by European cinema that...
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 Aparna Sen - Interview - MyBindi.com
Aparna Sen has come a long way both, as an actress and as a director, yet despite all the acclaim and recognition she feels pleasing oneself is the greatest artistic challenge an artist can face.
Aparna made her debut as an actress in a Satyajit Ray film in 1961 and her own directorial debut with 36 Chowringhee Lane, in 1981.
Aparna continues to write and direct her films and occasionally acts in them as well.
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 Actors - Aparna Sen
Aparna Sen was born in Kolkata (then Calcutta) to a culturally active Bengali family.
Aparna Sen is the long-standing editor of the fortnightly Sananda, a Bengali women's magazine (published by the Ananda Bazar Patrika group) that enjoys equal popularity in West Bengal and Bangladesh.
In 1986, the president of India bestowed the prestigious Padma Shri to Aparna Sen in recognition of her contribution to Indian cinema.
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 Indian Cinema Database: Aparna Sen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sen is also one of India's finest actresses and has won several awards for acting.
Aparna Sen followed up her directorial debt, 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) with this story about a 40-year-old married woman, Paroma who falls in love with Rahul, an expatriate photo-journalist working for glossy magazines who photographs her making her look glamorous.
Their affair, and the invasion of the glamour machine into her life, becomes a problem when some of the photographs, earlier admired by the family, are published in a journal.
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 India - Women - The Life In A Day of Aparna Sen!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The incarcerated housewife, the mute girl who is perforce married to a tree, the dependant widow who feels insecure when her brother-in-law is attracted towards her sister, the talented dancer who stifles her desire for marital bliss to further her career.
For the first time in her directorial career, Aparna played one of the two major roles in the film, that of Sanaka, who clings to Paromita for emotional support.
Aparna's deep-rooted aesthetic sensibilities (in the context of cinema at least) is attributable, to a large extent, to her father Chidananda Dasgupta, who co-founded the Calcutta Film Society with Satyajit Ray.
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 Calcuttaweb Cinema - Aparna Sen
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Suchitra Sen Sabitri Chatterjee Supriya Choudhuri Madhabi Mukherjee Kanan Devi Debasree Roy Rituparna Sengupta Indrani Halder
Aparna Sen is a renowned name in Bengali as well as Indian cinema.
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 Aparna Sen guest of honour at IWFF : bollywood, aparna sen, International Women's Film Festival, Israel, films : ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
STAR POWER: Aparna Sen is the star attraction at the festival where three of her films will be shown.
Jerusalem: Filmmaker Aparna Sen will be the Guest of Honour at the third International Women's Film Festival (IWFF) in Israel scheduled to start Thursday in the city of Rehovot, near Tel Aviv.
Aparna, whose classic Mr and Mrs Iyer has been screened at several film festivals in Israel, is the star attraction at the festival where three of her films will be shown.
www.ibnlive.com /news/aparna-sen-guest-of-honour-at-iwff/21319-8.html   (262 words)

  
 Aparna Sen to direct Konkona, Rahul Bose again   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mumbai, Jan 8 (IANS): One of India's best known woman filmmakers, Aparna Sen, is all set to start her new film...
Sen was all set to make her first Hindi film "Gulel" with Ajay Devgan and Saif Ali Khan.
At a loose end, Sen toyed seriously with the idea of making another Bengali film with her daughter Konkona Sen Sharma in the lead.
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 Profile: Aparna Sen; Sen and Sensibility
In the courtyard of 102, Hari Ghosh Street (the crumbling north Calcutta home of the once-prosperous Pal family -- some of the stained glass has survived), Aparna Sen is trying to convince the venerable brahmin Haripadababu that he doesn't "really" have to conduct someone's last rites.
Besides, says Rituparna Ghosh, director of Unishe April, in which Sen put up a high-class performance: "There's a level of involvement that she brings to anything she does that is just staggering.
Had it been in any way explicit (and had Sen found a financier earlier) she would have beaten Deepa Mehta to the drawing-room debates.
www.india-today.com /itoday/17051999/arts.html   (1005 words)

  
 Aparna Sen News - Topix
From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 01:35 PM IST Talented Bengali actor-filmmaker Aparna Sen is working on a multi-lingual film titled 'The Japanese Wife', based on a story by Indo-Anglian author Kunal...
Aparna Sen tells MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER she has always been concerned about marginalised people PHOTO: R. SHIVAJI RAO STRAIGHT TALK Aparna Sen: `If I had made 15, Park Avenue in Hindi, I would have made someone...
Aparna Sen tells MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER she has always been concerned about marginalised people PHOTO: R. SHIVAJI RAO STRAIGHT TALK Aparna Sen For Aparna Sen, an address is not just names and numbers.
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 Events Bangalore » 2006 » June
In the early 1990s, Sen became the editor of Sananda, a popular bimonthly women’s magazine in West Bengal, where her editorials tackle social issues.
Sen’s screenplay, which predated the riots in the western state of Gujarat in early 2002, was prescient.
Sen’s pride in the film is twofold: Besides winning her the National Film Award for Best Director in July, it netted a Best Actress award for her daughter Konkona, who plays Mrs.
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 Businessofcinema.com: Saregama appoints Aparna Sen as Bangla films CCO   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sen will work in the capacity of chief creative officer and will be in charge of Bangla films and television content.
Her appointment with Saregama closely follows the appointment of B R Sharan to head the Hindi film business and B R Vijaylakshmi as head of the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam television content business.
Saregama also plans to produce TV content in Hindi and Bangla, which will be looked after by B R Sharan and Sen and in the south by noted cinematographer Vijaylakshmi.
www.businessofcinema.com /2007/12jan/saregama_aparna_sen.htm   (367 words)

  
 Aparna Sen - Indian Film - Worldpress.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the early 1990s, Sen became the editor of Sananda, a popular bimonthly women’s magazine in West Bengal, where her editorials tackle social issues.
Sen’s screenplay, which predated the riots in the western state of Gujarat in early 2002, was prescient.
Sen’s pride in the film is twofold: Besides winning her the National Film Award for Best Director in July, it netted a Best Actress award for her daughter Konkona, who plays Mrs.
www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=1704&dont=yes   (386 words)

  
 Aparna Sen - Trikiwiki
Aparna Sen was born in Calcutta on 25 October 1945 to a well known film filmmaker, Chidanda Das Gupta and is today acknowledged as one of the greatest directors in Indian film industry.
Aparna began her directorial debut in 1981, learning from 2 decades of acting in serious cinema with widely acclaimed political movie called “36 Chawringhee Lane”.
She is the editor of “Sananda” woman’s magazine from Anand Bazar Patrika, where she is active in whole process including writing the editorials, judging the content thus making this magazine the most circulating woman’s magazine in the state of West Bengal.
www.trikiwiki.com /Aparna_Sen   (369 words)

  
 Amardeep Singh: Aparna Sen's 15 Park Avenue: Schizophrenia and Genius
And nearly all of them end up being unserious, because they are bound by a set of conventions (really just clichés) for how to deal with mental illness: all very predictable and safe.
In an interview, Sen has said that this film's story is based on someone close to her and her family.
Sen handled a similar subject (both mental and severe physical handicap) with a fair amount of sophistication in Paramitar Ek Din.
www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2006/02/aparna-sens-15-park-avenue.html   (1022 words)

  
 rediff.com: Movies: Filmmaker Aparna Sen on Mr and Mrs Iyer
rediff.com: Movies: Filmmaker Aparna Sen on Mr and Mrs Iyer
A love story between a Bengali wildlife photographer and a married Tamilian Brahmin woman, set in the backdrop of fundamentalism and violence, the film stars Rahul Bose and Konkona (Sen's daughter).
The film ran into some problems with environmentalists while they were shooting in North Bengal, but it appears that all issues have been resolved.
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 DesiParty.com | Content | Mother daughter duo Konkona-Aparna Sen premier 15 Park Avenue
Director Aparna Sen along with her talented daughter Konkona Sen welcomed the people from the media field.
Konkona Sen for the most part was seen with her boyfriend Ranveer Hooda.
Konkona Sen Sharma claimed that this had been her most unusual and radically different character so far.
www.desiparty.com /content/content.aspx?GetArticle=1&ArticleID=167&BackURL=/content/ContentHome.aspx   (437 words)

  
 World Press Review - Aparna Sen - Indian Film   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the early 1990s, Sen became the editor of Sananda, a popular bimonthly women’s magazine in West Bengal, where her editorials tackle social issues.
Sen’s screenplay, which predated the riots in the western state of Gujarat in early 2002, was prescient.
Sen’s pride in the film is twofold: Besides winning her the National Film Award for Best Director in July, it netted a Best Actress award for her daughter Konkona, who plays Mrs.
elijahzarwan.net /wpr/Asia/1589.cfm   (441 words)

  
 The Hindu : Magazine / Sightings : Aparna Sen
While depicting schizophrenia was a daunting task, Sen made sure that all the nuances in the film were just right.
"We took a lot of help from the medical community" said Sen, adding that the character of the young schizophrenic girl, played by her daughter, Konkona, was actually based on someone they knew.
The question of which reality represents whose point of view had been bothering me for a long time." She feels that the biggest selling point of the film is its cast.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/mag/2006/01/22/stories/2006012200340500.htm   (188 words)

  
 Aparna Sen is harsh to Konkona!- Movies- Indiatimes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Upbeat about her film 15 Park Avenue, Aparna Sen talks to us about the motion picture and her relationship with daughter Konkona, whom she directs for the second time.
She lives in a virtual world and is very taken up by it.
This film is a definition of several relationships and a portrayal especially of the relationship between Mithi (Konkona Sen Sharma) and her elder sister Anju played by Shabana Azmi.”
movies.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1361960.cms   (109 words)

  
 Aparna Sen
One of India’s most celebrated film directors, Aparna Sen is the daughter of renowned film historian, critic and filmmaker, Chidananda Dasgupta.
Aparna Sen is also one of India’s finest actors.
Aparna has been honoured with some of India’s most prestigious awards, including the Padmashree Award for Contribution to Cinema by the President of India, and the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award.
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 Encyclopedia India » Aparna Sen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Later in life she would work with Satyajit Ray in several of his films, including the short Pikoo (1981) where she played the role of an adulterous wife and mother.
Aparna followed up this early success with several other films, notably Paroma (1984), Sati (1989) and Yugant (1995).
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 Aparna Sen's Japanese Wife with Rahul Bose and Raima Sen
Aparna Sen's Japanese Wife with Rahul Bose and Raima Sen
Raima Sen will be attending a workshop with theatre personality Sohag Sen and then start shooting from April.
Meanwhile Aparna Sen has decided to shelve her other project Jewellery Box starring Govinda, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sharmila Tagore and Soha Ali Khan.
www.indiafm.com /news/2007/01/11/8628/index.html   (194 words)

  
 Latest Bollywood News - Aparna Sen announces new film
Aparna Sen, the winner of the National Awards for best direction and best script this year for Mr and Mrs.
Iyer, was feted last month at the closing ceremony of the Asian Film Festival in Bombay.
Addressing a press conference later, Aparna announced that her next film would be in Hindi, titled Gulel and will be based on the life of a convict.
www.bollywoodblitz.com /news/bollywoodnews.php?newsarticle=18   (224 words)

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