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Name: |
Aparna Sen |
| DOB: |
25th October, 1945 |
| Birth Place: |
Kolkata, India |
| Profession: |
Actress / Director |
| Also Known by: |
Aparna Dasgupta
Aparna Das Gupta |
| Daughter: |
Konkona Sen Sharma |
| Spouse: |
Kalyan Ray - Present
Mukul Sharma - Divorced |
| AT A GLANCE |
She is one of a few people who are born in film industry
with their feet on the right way. Aparna Sen, a film director who was born in
1945 in Calcutta is a great director of the serious Indian cinema. In her early
youth, Aparna Sen was impressed by European cinema that strongly affected her
art life. In the beginning, she started her film career as an actress when she
participated in “Sampatti” by Satyajit Ray, then her works in cinema and theatre
appeared successively getting the praise of critics. 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.
Aparna Sen is one of India's most celebrated directors. Her directorial debut
was an English film, 36 Chowringhee Lane, which she also wrote. The film won The
Grand Prix at the Manila International Film Festival and the National Award for
Best Direction in India. Her directorial work also includes memorable films such
as Sati, Parama, and Yugant. Daughter of the renowned film historian, critic,
and filmmaker, Chidanda Das Gupta, Aparna Sen is also one of India's finest
actresses and has won several awards for acting.
Ms. Sen has served on juries at many international film festivals, such as
International Film Festival of India, Moscow International Film Festival, and
the Hawaii International Film Festival. Aparna Sen has also been honored with
some of India's most prestigious awards including the Padmashree Award by the
President of India and the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award.
And unlike most celebrity editors, she lends much more than just her name and
mug to the magazine. She pens the editorial herself and oversees the editorial
content and the picture pages in each issue. Even behind the limelight, Aparna
Sen or Rinadi as she is affectionately called, is the perfect friend, homemaker,
daughter, mother and grandmother. She loves pottering around the house, cooking,
talking to her grand daughter and indulging in the occasional poetry. That, in
essence, is Aparna Sen. Complete, that much abused term, somehow sounds
wholesome and real when used for this woman. |
| TRIVIA |
| Mother of Konkona Sen Sharma Won National Film Awards for Mr. and Mrs.
Iyer.
She is the hyperactive editor of Sananda, West Bengal's highest circulated
woman's magazine in Bengali, brought out by the Ananda Bazar Patrika group.
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| QUOTES |
| "Onus of saving Bengali cinema from the hands of somnolent directors is
not mine." |
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