Kolkata: Happy that his popular fiction Goynar Baksho was at last framed on celluloid, writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay said he had wished it be made by none other than Aparna Sen.
"When Aparna first approached me for the right of the literary work several years back I felt it will fall in the hand of the right person. Yes Goynar Baksho has cinematric elements I knew and I was happy the way the story evolved in her hands. We had several sessions and she did it wonderfully.
But then things got stalled and it was a helpless situation for us both," Shirshendu, several of whose stories and novels had been filmed by directors, told PTI....
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12:41 PM, Apr 17, 2013
The premier artsy mother-daughter duo of Indian cinema, Aparna and Konkona Sen who've made critically acclaimed films like 'Titli', 'Mr and Mrs Iyer' and '15 Park Avenue' in the past are back with another film, 'Goynar Baksho'. ...
05:24 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Mousumi Chatterjee says she is fortunate to have been cast in a full-fledged role in Aparna Sen's next film 'Goynar Bakso'. ...
11:57 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Modern Theatres joined hands with an American Film company to produce the first English film in South India. ...
10:39 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Mumbai: Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen's 'Paroma'. Recalling the glorious time she had strumming those magical strings under the guidance of the late master sitarist, Raakhee said: "There were scenes in 'Paroma' where my character was shown to be playing the sitar. Neither Aparna nor...
02:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: When Bengals ace of hearts, the one and only Uttam Kumar breathed his last on July 24, 1980, he unleashed the kind of public hysteria unprecedented in the annals of Bengals movie history. Millions of Uttam fans, suddenly orphaned, kept asking just one question, Is it true? To people outside Bengal (specially new age fans of dazzlers like Prosenjit, Jeet and the new red hot man Dev), it...
10:27 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Aparna Sen, who had worked with cinematographer Ashok Mehta in '36 Chowringhee Lane', 'Paroma' and 'Sati', is devastated after learning about his demise, as she considered him her pillar of strength. "The last time I met him was at the Mumbai premiere of my film 'The Japanese Wife'. I can't believe he's gone! I didn't even know he was suffering from lung cancer. But then I am not...
04:35 PM, Aug 18, 2012
New Delhi: First things first. Only guys in dire need of an instant brain transplant perceive advertising to be the unsoiled harbinger of truth or relentless Brand Ambassador of reality. Advertising is after all (first and last) a crucial marketing tool mandated to do a job as effectively as possible. Towards achieving this end- (like Bollywood) - magnifying, hyping, dramatizing, exaggerating and colouring comes with the territory. "Agreed", says the...
07:56 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: When Bengals ace of hearts, the one and only Uttam Kumar breathed his last on July 24, 1980, he unleashed the kind of public hysteria unprecedented in the annals of Bengals movie history. Millions of Uttam fans, suddenly orphaned, kept asking just one question, Is it true? To people outside Bengal (specially new age fans of dazzlers like Prosenjit, Jeet and the new red hot man Dev), it...
03:49 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: When Bengals ace of hearts, the one and only Uttam Kumar breathed his last on July 24, 1980, he unleashed the kind of public hysteria unprecedented in the annals of Bengals movie history. Millions of Uttam fans, suddenly orphaned, kept asking just one question, Is it true? To people outside Bengal (specially new age fans of dazzlers like Prosenjit, Jeet and the new red hot man Dev), it...
06:50 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Noted filmmaker Aparna Sen talks about her most memorable movies. ...
03:46 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Kolkata: National Award winning director Aparna Sen says filmmakers wanting to portray the Kolkata of the past have a ready reckoner in the films of the 1960s and 1970s. "Let me talk about some of the problems one encounters when trying to shoot in Kolkata," Sen said at a seminar organised at the 17th Kolkata Film Festival. "There are times when we need to portray the city of yesteryears. There...
12:34 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Kolkata: After its critical acclaim at home and abroad at different film festivals, the world launch of the DVD of ace director Aparna Sen's 'Iti Mrinalini' took place at a city book store. "I am very happy with the work of Debu (ace music composer Debojyoti Misra. The film was possible because of everybody involved including Debu," Sen said as Misra was present at the DVD launch programme at a...
01:14 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Death is a paradox " it announces an absence yet it is profound and revered in religions. It is a bonding which marks a distance " between us and within us. This relativism of death makes it an abstraction of separation " intrigues longing and masquerades as permanence. Death therefore essentially links memories to absolutism and in turn rejects itself. In Hindu philosophy of re-birth and the circle (and cycle)...
01:37 PM, Aug 24, 2011
Cast: Aparna Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rajat Kapoor, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Koushik Sen, Saheb Bhattacharjee Director: Aparna Sen Aparna Sen's 'Iti Mrinalini' is not so much of a bad film as it is a disappointing film, coming as it does after the exquisite 'The Japanese Wife.' The story is about Mrinalini, an actress well past her prime. On the night of the premiere of her latest movie, she realizes that her...
10:49 AM, Aug 02, 2011
Kolkata: Chidananda Dasgupta, noted film critic and father of renowned actor-director Aparna Sen, died here last night following brief illness. He was 89 and predeceased by his wife two years ago. He was suffering from acute broncho pneumonia and Parkinson's disease, doctors attending on him said. Aparna, who was away in the United States, would come here tomorrow to do the final rites. Born in 1922, Chidananda, along with Satyajit...
02:36 PM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: Bengali film 'Sthaniya Sambaad' won Best Feature at the 11th Annual New York Indian Film Festival that closed on May 8 in Manhattan. Directed by Arjun Gourisaria and Moinak Biswas, the film traces the story of a settlement of refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in Kolkata and sweeps through the lives of its four main protagonist. The Annual New York Indian Film Festival is North America's oldest...
07:45 PM, May 09, 2011
The actor talks about his next film, 'The Japanese Wife' ...
01:08 PM, Mar 28, 2010
