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Aparna Sen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Aparna Sen was born in Kolkata (then Calcutta) to a culturally active Bengali family. Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bangla: অপর্ণাসেন) (October 25, 1945-) is an acclaimed Indian actress and film director, and a leading cultural personality of West Bengal. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aparna_Sen   (651 words)

webindia123.com-personalities of India - Actress, director, writer, Aparna Sen 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. Born in 25th October, 1945 in Kolkata, West Bengal, Aparna Sen is the daughter of veteran critic and filmmaker Chidananda Dasgupta. www.webindia123.com /personal/film/aparna.htm   (704 words)

Screen The Business Of Entertainment-Regional-Tollygunje-Report Aparna Sen, however, has rebutted the ‘allegation’ saying what has been done to match the purpose of the film has been done with ‘official permission’ granted to her film unit. Aparna Sen has become the butt of flash controversy as many environmentalists have raised serious objection against the shooting of her new English film Mr. But to a complete relief of Aparna Sen came the defense from the Conservator of Forests, Wilde Life, North which reads: "Forest rest houses in National Parks are not within the purview of the Wildlife Act and alteration to a rest house is purely an administrative matter". www.screenindia.com /20020201/rtoly1.html   (290 words)

Rediff On The NeT, Movies: An interview with Aparna Sen Aparna's consistently strong and deep-rooted aesthetic sensibilities (in the context of cinema at least) is attributable, to a large extent, to her grooming in an environment where films played an important role. A novel experiment Aparna began before she begin to shoot this film was a long theatre workshop conducted along with her childhood friend and theatre-person Sohag Sen. The entire cast participated in this workshop where they considered each other's actions and reactions in hypothetical situations from life. Aparna likes ethnic clothes, simple food cooked in little or no oil, and wears little make-up, She reads a lot but refuses to use her films to propagate an ideology. www.rediff.com /entertai/1999/jun/30apa.htm   (2093 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly Culture Page No time for regrets Aparna Sen is a rare bird, a writer deeply committed to a political ideology while retaining a fierce independence and originality in her films and in the extrovert milieu of Bollywood, Sen stands out as an intensely private person. Sen is a self-made woman who demands that she be taken seriously. Sen soon realised that acting alone would not satisfy her though her debut as an actress, in Satyajit's Ray's 1961 film Two Daughters, received rave reviews. weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/460/cu6.htm   (1003 words)

Cinema: Sensational; Aug 10, 2003. The Week While Aparna, 58, has taken the accolade in her stride as gracefully as she acted in scores of memorable Bengali films, and thereafter effortlessly assumed the director's baton, it has yet to sink in for Konkona, 24. Aparna summarily packed her off for a week's 'study tour' to Chennai, to imbibe the Tamilian ways: how they speak English, the way they dress, behave and their attitude to life. It was Aparna's second National Award for Best Director (the first was for 36 Chowringhee Lane in 1981) while for dusky Konkona, it was her first National Award for Best Actress-and they won it for Mr and Mrs Iyer. www.the-week.com /23aug10/enter.htm   (636 words)

The Hindu : Magazine / People : Metaphor for a universal search Aparna Sen has always brought the unseen and the overlooked on screen. "IF all of us insist that the gulab jamuns on the table are marbles, and you alone said they were gulab jamuns, will people think you are sane?" asks Aparna Sen, between mouthfuls over a quick lunch at the Mumbai studio where she is dubbing her new film "15, Park Avenue". Sen's experience up close with a schizophrenic aunt is the basis of research linking polar opposites — psychology and physics. www.hindu.com /mag/2005/06/19/stories/2005061900100500.htm   (786 words)

rediff.com: Movies: The Rediff Review: Mr & Mrs Iyer Writer-director Aparna Sen's daughter Konkana, a youngster, bowls you over with her silently sledge-hammering portrayal of Meenakshi Iyer, a conservative Tamilian Brahmin housewife, journeying alone with her infant son through a treacherously tranquil hilly region to join her husband. Today, in Aparna Sen's film, Balraj’s brother Bhisham's character is dragged down from a bus with his wife and killed by Hindu fanatics. Some of the supporting cast, especially Surekha Sikri and Bhisham Sahni, are also admirable in their surrender to Aparna Sen's immeasurable misgivings as a creative artiste caught in times and issues that have to be addressed in her art. in.rediff.com /movies/2002/oct/03iyer.htm   (841 words)

Indian Cinema Database: Aparna Sen 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. Sen is also one of India's finest actresses and has won several awards for acting. The film is notable mainly for its emancipatory thrust, undermined by a class-inflected sense of nostalgia for 'belonging', rather than for its cinematic qualities which are akin to the kitschy style of glossy consumer magazines. www.chaosmag.net /aparna.html   (820 words)

Lens, lies & awards Meanwhile, Konkana Sen Sharma (Aparna Sen's daughter), recipient of the 'best actress' National Award for her portrayal as Mrs Iyer in the eponymous film, said to a TV channel that she hailed from privileged society and had no personal experience of communal tensions. It was ironical that Aparna Sen's Mr and Mrs Iyer won three National Awards, including for 'Best Patriotic Film', on Kargil's Martyrs' Day (July 26), the commemoration of which was summarily called off by the Government to pander to 'friend in the making' Pakistan. In a recent editorial in a women's magazine she edits, Aparna Sen criticised Bollywood films as communal, reflecting neo-Hindutva and based on the ethos of the opulent North Indian Hindu family. www.hvk.org /articles/0803/103.html   (549 words)

India Travel Times, Indian Cinema, Mr & Mrs Iyer To this Aparna Sen justifies that her film, Mr and Mrs Iyer, is not a mainstream Bollywood film, it's a simple tale of two people thrown in unforeseen circumstances. For Sen as well as her unit, Gujarat was a grim reminder of the harsh reality which they were dealing with and, in fact, made them sit up and question the basics of their film. But, as Sen says, what makes her film different is not just its strong inter-religious overtones but the striking insight into the working of an individual mind when caught in bizarre circumstances. www.indiatraveltimes.com /cinema/mr&mrs.html   (584 words)

Aparna Sen: 25 years of thought-provoking films - Bollywood Hindi Movie News - IndiaGlitz.com Actress-director Aparna Sen is ready with her seventh feature film, "15 Park Avenue", which marks 25 years of a filmmaking career driven by the intellectual quotient. Aparna Sen: 25 years of thought-provoking films - Bollywood Hindi Movie News - IndiaGlitz.com A path-breaker in her own right, Sen's works of art include "Paroma", released in 1985, about the sexual explorations of a middle-class housewife who falls in love with a photographer much younger to her. www.indiaglitz.com /channels/hindi/article/19493.html   (750 words)

Sydney Film Festival--Part 3 Two perceptive Indian films Aparna Sen is the daughter of film historian, critic, and filmmaker, Chidanda Dasgupta. In one media interview, Aparna Sen said she decided to make Mr and Mrs Iyer out of “deep concern” over the rise of Hindu chauvinism and added: “[T]he secularism that Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi stood up for is almost extinct. Even among the urban middle class and the upper middle class, the so-called educated, enlightened class, secularism is absent.” Sen’s sensitivity to the repudiation of secularism by a section of the middle class is significant. www.wsws.org /articles/2003/aug2003/sff3-a07_prn.shtml   (1536 words)

TIME Asia Print Page: The Toughest Topic -- November 11, 2002/ Vol. 160 No. 18 Iyer, Indian writer-director Aparna Sen weaves a love story set against the backdrop of communal violence, the monkey that never leaves India's back. Sen uses the reactions of each character to the violence unfolding around them as a mirror that reflects the clashing attitudes Indians hold toward one another. When Sen, 57, began writing the script, all she knew was that she wanted to shoot a love story. time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501021111-386978,00.html   (624 words)

channel4.com/film - Paromitar Ek Din While Paromita remarries and begins a new life, her mother-in-law (played brilliantly by Aparna Sen) is left heartbroken and alone and eventually falls seriously ill. When Paromita learns of her friend's deterioration, she is compelled to flout convention, and returns to nurse Sanaka on her deathbed. Aparna Sen has made a sensitive and gentle film about the different way in which women unite despite the expectations of social norms. Sanaka (Aparna Sen) and Paromita (Rituparna Sengupta) are mother and daughter-in-law who, despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond together. www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=134001   (174 words)

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. www.mybindi.com /arts-entertainment/WHATSON/interview-aparnasen.cfm   (1362 words)

Aparna Sen - Indian Film - Worldpress.org 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. 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. www.worldpress.org /Asia/1589.cfm   (462 words)

netGuruIndia Filmreview-filmreview The story line as it goes is simple but it has been dealt artistically by Aparna Sen. The Camera work is clear and catches same specific moments to highlight the main theme of the story. This is yet another movie in the line of Ketan Mehta's "Fire" but Aparna Sen has developed feminist problems which are palpable and overtly simple. Paromitar Akdin is Aparna Sen's new film after the release of Yuganta. www.netguruindia.com /Entertain/filmreview/PED.html   (1173 words)

Amardeep Singh: Masters of Depressing Indian Cinema We saw Aparna Sen's Yugant (1995) yesterday at the "Masters of Indian Cinema" Film Festival at the ImaginAsian. Sen engages her audience in various philosophical and formal problems as she moves the story forward (and yes, down). I think part of it is that Sen uses mood-setting music quite sparingly (though she's not as spartan as the Dogme 95 people are. www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/04/masters-of-depressing-indian-cinema.html   (564 words)

Movie Review : 15 Park Avenue Aparna's style of direction is elitist by nature. Konkona Sen Sharma is first-rate, especially in portions when she has delusions. Aparna has handled a number of sequences with aplomb. www.indiafm.com /movies/review/12579   (731 words)

Movie Review Aparna Sen’s Mr and Mrs Iyer is a Hindu-Muslim love-story set amidst the most unsettling riots and leaves an indelible impact due to superb performances from the lead cast, Konkana Sen and Rahul Bose. Konkana Sen is the pick of the season and has given an award worthy performance. The film has some truly special moments between them, which have been deftly crafted by Sen. www.onlinebangalore.com /life/movi/mrmrs   (401 words)

Calcutta In fact the tradition of non-commercial, artistic, impressionistic cinema is vogue in the cinema of Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak (d.1977), Buddhadev Dasgupta, Goutam Ghose, Aparna Sen, Nabyendu Chatterjee among others. Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were Devi Chowdhurani, Sri Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra Pal, Kshudiram Bose and Surya Sen. The early nationalists were inspired by Swami Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna and helped by Sister Nivedita, disciple of the former. Calcutta was also home to the poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Hindu social reformers Raja Ram Mohun Roy (founder of the Brahmo Samaj), Keshub Chunder Sen, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, David Hare (of Calcutta), Alexander Duff, Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, William Carey and Mutty Lal Seal. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/calcutta.html   (2947 words)

Soha-Sharmila in Aparna Sen‘s next! - bollywood news : glamsham.com Aparna Sen's MR AND MRS IYER was instrumental in shaping up her daughter Konkona Sen's career and eased Konkona's entry into Bollywood. Saif Ali Khan may have refused her maiden Hindi film Gulel (he even denied Sai Paranjpe's film recently), but that didn't deter director Aparna Sen even a bit! Aparna will start to work on this film in early 2006 after she's done with her English film 15TH PARK AVENUE again with Konkona and Rahul Bose. www.glamsham.com /movies/scoops/05/oct/26soha.asp   (352 words)

The Tribune...Arts Tribune OING beyond the realms of a traditional “tu tu main main” undercurrents of a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship, noted film-maker Aparna Sen explores a unique female bounding in her latest film “Paromitar ek Din”. For the discerning Bengali film audience craving for quality fare, “Paromitar ek Din” also means a double treat as Sen herself for the first time (if a small cameo appearance in her film “Paroma” is discounted) plays one of the lead characters in her own film. Unlike Deepa Mehta’s iconoclastic film “Fire”, the female bounding in Sen’s film has no sexual connotation, but only vividly captures the emotional union of two women who share the same pains of being mothers of spastic children and undergo the pangs of coping in a world dominated by male chauvinism. www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jul30/art-trib.htm   (2732 words)

Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002) Konkona Sen Sharma's performance is delightful with her authentic accent and mannerism of a South Indian. The script is written thoughtfully setting up charged dynamics between the main characters Raja and Meenakshi. us.imdb.com /title/tt0329393/combined   (447 words)

Redhotcurry.com - Film. Mr & Mrs Iyer directed by Aparna Sen Aparna Sen's first love story is set against the communal violence which sporadically erupts in today's India. Mr and Mrs Iyer directed by Aparna Sen Mrs Meenakshi Iyer (Konkona Sensharma) and her nine month old son Santanam are leaving a hill station resort for Kolkata. www.redhotcurry.com /entertainment/films/mr_and_mrs_iyer.htm   (205 words)

Park yourself here In this, her film after Mr and Mrs Iyer, director Aparna Sen takes on a much more complex theme and anchors it in characters you’ll remember long after you’ve left the cinema hall. At the end of it all, you’re grateful for an Aparna Sen interpretation; she engages you while making you think. Yet as she skillfully moves back and forth in the narrative, Sen’s story of a schizophrenic and her family that copes with her condition, loses its forcefulness and peters down. web.mid-day.com /news/city/2006/january/128021.htm   (802 words)

The Tribune - Magazine section - Saturday Extra Konkona, or Koko, is the youngest daughter of actress-director-editor Aparna Sen and journalist Mukul Sharma. Incidentally, Konkona’s mother Aparna Sen, too, made her acting debut in the early 1960s in a Ray classic, Teen Kanya, featuring in the last episode of the three-in-one film. on the talented and confident Konkona Sen Sharma, who first made waves with Mr and Mrs Iyer and is now busy shooting for mother Aparna Sen’s 15 Park Avenue. www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050326/saturday/main1.htm   (1867 words)

Planet Bollywood - Gossip - Govinda In Aparna Sen´s Next ? If his close associates are to be believed, Govinda has been selected to work in an Aparna Sen film to be made in Hindi. Aparna was recently in Bombay to finalise other casts and credits. Ms Sen, after '15 Park Avenue ', is now planning to start her next by January 2006. www.planetbollywood.com /displayArticle.php?id=090405021554   (114 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro While Aparna Sen was busy with the nitty-gritty, it was left to Sohag Sen to nudge the actors according to the script, as and when required. At the workshops — a vital part of Sohag Sen’s routine — Day One is kept for ice-breaking when she asks the actors to mingle among themselves, play mind games and even get into the groove with some foot-tapping music. It began in the early 70s when Sohag Sen, as the director of her troupe, found her actors lacking spontaneity. www.telegraphindia.com /1041213/asp/calcutta/story_4117206.asp   (857 words)

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