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Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bengali: অপর্ণা সেন Ôporna Shen; born 25 October 1945) is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and actress. She is the winner of three National Film Awards and eight international film festival awards.
Aparna Sen was born in Calcutta to a Bengali family, originally from East Bengal (now Bangladesh). Her father is the veteran critic and film-maker Chidananda Dasgupta. Her mother Supriya Dasgupta is the cousin of renowned Bengali poet Jibanananda Das. She spent her childhood in Hazaribagh and Kolkata and had her schooling initially in South Point and later mostly in Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata.
She studied her B.A. English honors in Presidency College..
She met the Magnum photographer, Brian Brake, in Kolkata in 1961 when he was visiting India to photograph his Monsoon series. Brake used Sen as the model for what was to become one of his most well known photographs - a shot of a girl holding her face to the first drops of monsoon rain. The photo shoot was set up on a Kolkata rooftop with a ladder and a watering can. Sen described the shoot:
He took me up to the terrace, had me wear a red sari in the way a village girl does, and asked me to wear a green stud in my nose. To be helpful, I said let me wear a red one to match, and he said no - he was so decisive, rather brusque - I think a green one. It was stuck to my nose with glue, because my nose wasn't pierced. Someone had a large watering can, and they poured water over me. It was really a very simple affair. It took maybe half an hour.[1]
[edit]Acting career
Sen made her film debut at the age of 16, when she played the role of Mrinmoyee in the Samapti portion of the 1961 film Teen Kanya (Three Daughters) directed by Satyajit Ray (who was a long time friend of her father's). She then studied at Kolkata's Presidency College.
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.
In 1965, Sen resumed her film career in Mrinal Sen's Akash Kusum which was later remade into a Hindi film Manzil starring Amitabh Bachchan and Moushumi Chatterjee.Later she also brought out the different nuances of a widow in Mrinal Sen's Mahaprithibi'. From then until the end of the 1970s, she worked steadily in the Bengali film industry, as leading heroine of the time. She acted in a number of Hindi films as well during this time including Imaan Dharam (1977) with Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar and Rekha. Aparna Sen was equally successful in the mainstream Bengali films.Her chemistry both with Soumitra Chatterjee in films such as Basanta Bilap, Baksa Badal, Chutir Fande were loved as much as her films with Uttam Kumar in Joy Jayanti, Alor Thikana etc.
In 1969, Sen appeared in The Guru, an English-language feature by Merchant Ivory Productions. She would make two more films with Merchant-Ivory, Bombay Talkie (1970), and Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978).
In 2009, Sen appeared with Sharmila Tagore and Rahul Bose in Annirudh Roy-Chowdhary's Bengali film Antaheen. The film went on to win four National Film Awards.[2]
[edit]Aparna as director
In 1981, Sen made her debut as a film director with 36 Chowringhee Lane. She also wrote its screenplay. The film, about an aged Anglo-Indian teacher living in Calcutta, won positive reviews from critics. For her debut feature, Sen won the Best Director award at the Indian National Film Awards. 36 Chowringhee Lane also won the Grand Prix (the Golden Eagle) at the Manila International Film Festival.
She followed up this early success with several other films, notably Paroma (1984), Sati (1989) and Yugant (1995). These examined the feminine condition in modern-day India from different perspectives. She also starred in Unishe April (1994), the film by Bengali cinema's Rituparno Ghosh.
Sen's next directorial effort Paromitar Ek Din (2000) was a critical hit and recalled the success of her first film. The film explored the relationship between a divorced woman (Rituparna Sengupta) and her mother-in-law, played by Aparna herself. It won a number of awards on the international festival circuit.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), was a love story set against the harsh backdrop of Hindu-Muslim sectarian violence in India. The film won a National Film Award for Sen's direction, and an acting award for Konkona Sen Sharma, the director's daughter. The film won more awards at the Locarno, Hawaii and Manila film festivals.
15, Park Avenue (2005) starred her daughter and the actors Shabana Azmi, Dhritiman Chaterji, Waheeda Rehman, Rahul Bose and Soumitra Chatterjee. The film deals with a girl (Konkona Sen Sharma) who is a schizophrenic and her relations with her elder stepsister, played by Shabana Azmi.
Her next film named The Japanese Wife (2010), stars Raima Sen, Rahul Bose and Chigusa Takaku. This film focuses on two women and is based on a short story by West Bengal author Kunal Basu.
Aparna has made selective films and in the last three decades of her career, she has made only nine films.
In 2009, Sen announced her next Bengali film Iti Mrinalini, which stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Aparna Sen, Rajat Kapoor, Koushik Sen, and Priyanshu Chatterjee. Sen's last Bengali film was Paromitar Ek Din (2000). First-time screenwriter Ranjan Ghosh has co-authored Iti Mrinalini. This was the first time that Aparna Sen collaborated with any film writer or became attached to the curriculum of a film institute. The screenplay of Iti Mrinalini was an assignment in the Screenwriting syllabus at the Mumbai-based film school Whistling Woods International.[3] It was also a major first in Indian screenwriting whence any screenplay from any Indian film institute was actually filmed.[4] The film is released on July 29, 2011.
[edit]Personal life
Sen has been married three times. Her first marriage, to Sanjay Sen, was when she was quite young. Her second husband was the science writer and journalist, Mukul Sharma. They later divorced amicably. Sen is presently married to Kalyan Ray, an author and professor of English who teaches at County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey, in the United States. She has two daughters, Kamalini and Konkona—who is also an actress—and two grandchildren.
[edit]Other achievements
In 2008, Sen was elected into the International Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The highly credentialed Jury, headed by a president of international distinction, determine winners from all nominations in each award category.
From 1986 to 2005, Sen was 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. From November 2005 to December 2006, she was associated with the Bengali 24x7 infotainment channel Kolkata TV as Creative Director.
In 1986, the then-President of India bestowed the Padma Shri to Sen in recognition of her contribution to Indian cinema. Since then, she has received several lifetime achievement awards, and served on juries at film festivals around the world.
Kunika (born 1 January 1966) is a notable film actress, she was especially involved in a lot of films in villain and comic roles. She also is a singer and launched two albums, the first being mitti. She has two sons.
Kunika has carved out a niche for herself in the hearts of her publics. Since her teenage years, this versatile actress decided to make it a big on the TV screen. At the age of 16, she challenged her parents to get her married to her Prince Charming, but later she realized that it was a disaster and the marriage came to an end within two years. Then she took a job in Delhi but her friends and relatives advised her to shift to Mumbai. After doing a few serials, she came to Mumbai. She wanted to act in films and had fared well in a screen test. However, actor Hemant Birje (of Tarzan fame) refused to act with a rank newcomer like her. She went back to Delhi teary-eyed but fully determined that she would not let any one man rule her destiny. After working in sales at the Grand Intercontinental, Delhi, for about six months, she started to feel stagnated. A failed marriage at the age of 20, and going through a bitter custody battle for her son Arihant of age 6 (in 1984), she thought that she should make a fresh start and so returned to Mumbai. On the flight, she met Asrani and complimented his wife's serial Kashmakash. Soon after when she called up Manju Asrani to praise her work in Kashmakash she offered her a role in her serial. He encouraged her to speak his wife and it was Manju Asrani who gave Kunika a break. It was from here that her acting career began and she never had to look back after this. She got her portfolio done, did some PR with letters and soon began the rounds to serial makers and film producers.
Her second break also came from television when Dheeraj Kumar offered her a role in Adalat. Kunika Lal has not only displayed her talents in her acting career but has also been actively involved in social activities like AIDS awareness campaigns for almost 10 years. After that, films followed. People said she would be a great vamp because she was tall, thin and sexy. They told her that Bindu's role, Aruna Irani's role can be replaced by her in their absences. She has done 90 films in 16 years. Her 'Mona darling' role was in Mohra. That's when she decided to change her image drastically. Swabhimaan, where she played an 18-year-old mother was a breakthrough role that won her many plaudits. What she didn't get in seven years of films, she achieved a lot of popularity within three months of Swabhimaan. Then, negative roles in films like Beta, Gumraah and Khiladi followed. But then she tried to play it understated, not the typical loud dialogues. She liked to be realistic. Sometimes there are differences of opinion with Zee," says the spunky woman. She had changed her name to Mallika some time ago because someone told her she wouldn't be able to get married if she didn't. Ironically, her husband didn't really like the name Mallika, but after sometime she reverted it back to "Kunika". She along with her business partner cum architect friend Shekhar Dadarkar opened a chain of restaurants called "Ten-The Happy Bistro" in Goregaon, in suburban Mumbai. She has only two dreams in her life, the first one is to be Oprah Winfrey and the other is to become a playback singer. Her fans are sure that this gifted actress will go a long way and fulfill her long-cherished dreams in the near future. Kunika Lal is one actress who doesn’t run away from reality. She has acted in more than 80 Hindi films and was a prominent face in the popular television shows like Swabhimaan and Kittie Party. She was last seen in Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar (2006).
[edit]Filmography
Kunika began her film career at the age of 24 in a 1988 horror movie named Kabrastan along with notable actors Raja Murad and "TARZAN" hero Hemant Birje. She is mainly involved in negative roles and bold scenes in bulk of her movies, the hot scene with Milind Gunaji in Fareb, as lady cop with Bob Christo in Gumrah, against Sunil Shetty in a song with green saree in film Judge Mujrim (1997), and in a very big shot with Tarun Arora in Men Not Allowed. She has acted in about 50 Hindi films. She danced with Akshay Kumar in Khiladi in the song tu shama main parwana tera.
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunika
Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bengali: অপর্ণা সেন Ôporna Shen; born 25 October 1945) is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and actress. She is the winner of three National Film Awards and eight international film festival awards.
Aparna Sen was born in Calcutta to a Bengali family, originally from East Bengal (now Bangladesh). Her father is the veteran critic and film-maker Chidananda Dasgupta. Her mother Supriya Dasgupta is the cousin of renowned Bengali poet Jibanananda Das. She spent her childhood in Hazaribagh and Kolkata and had her schooling initially in South Point and later mostly in Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata.
She studied her B.A. English honors in Presidency College..
She met the Magnum photographer, Brian Brake, in Kolkata in 1961 when he was visiting India to photograph his Monsoon series. Brake used Sen as the model for what was to become one of his most well known photographs - a shot of a girl holding her face to the first drops of monsoon rain. The photo shoot was set up on a Kolkata rooftop with a ladder and a watering can. Sen described the shoot:
He took me up to the terrace, had me wear a red sari in the way a village girl does, and asked me to wear a green stud in my nose. To be helpful, I said let me wear a red one to match, and he said no - he was so decisive, rather brusque - I think a green one. It was stuck to my nose with glue, because my nose wasn't pierced. Someone had a large watering can, and they poured water over me. It was really a very simple affair. It took maybe half an hour.[1]
[edit]Acting career
Sen made her film debut at the age of 16, when she played the role of Mrinmoyee in the Samapti portion of the 1961 film Teen Kanya (Three Daughters) directed by Satyajit Ray (who was a long time friend of her father's). She then studied at Kolkata's Presidency College.
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.
In 1965, Sen resumed her film career in Mrinal Sen's Akash Kusum which was later remade into a Hindi film Manzil starring Amitabh Bachchan and Moushumi Chatterjee.Later she also brought out the different nuances of a widow in Mrinal Sen's Mahaprithibi'. From then until the end of the 1970s, she worked steadily in the Bengali film industry, as leading heroine of the time. She acted in a number of Hindi films as well during this time including Imaan Dharam (1977) with Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar and Rekha. Aparna Sen was equally successful in the mainstream Bengali films.Her chemistry both with Soumitra Chatterjee in films such as Basanta Bilap, Baksa Badal, Chutir Fande were loved as much as her films with Uttam Kumar in Joy Jayanti, Alor Thikana etc.
In 1969, Sen appeared in The Guru, an English-language feature by Merchant Ivory Productions. She would make two more films with Merchant-Ivory, Bombay Talkie (1970), and Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978).
In 2009, Sen appeared with Sharmila Tagore and Rahul Bose in Annirudh Roy-Chowdhary's Bengali film Antaheen. The film went on to win four National Film Awards.[2]
[edit]Aparna as director
In 1981, Sen made her debut as a film director with 36 Chowringhee Lane. She also wrote its screenplay. The film, about an aged Anglo-Indian teacher living in Calcutta, won positive reviews from critics. For her debut feature, Sen won the Best Director award at the Indian National Film Awards. 36 Chowringhee Lane also won the Grand Prix (the Golden Eagle) at the Manila International Film Festival.
She followed up this early success with several other films, notably Paroma (1984), Sati (1989) and Yugant (1995). These examined the feminine condition in modern-day India from different perspectives. She also starred in Unishe April (1994), the film by Bengali cinema's Rituparno Ghosh.
Sen's next directorial effort Paromitar Ek Din (2000) was a critical hit and recalled the success of her first film. The film explored the relationship between a divorced woman (Rituparna Sengupta) and her mother-in-law, played by Aparna herself. It won a number of awards on the international festival circuit.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), was a love story set against the harsh backdrop of Hindu-Muslim sectarian violence in India. The film won a National Film Award for Sen's direction, and an acting award for Konkona Sen Sharma, the director's daughter. The film won more awards at the Locarno, Hawaii and Manila film festivals.
15, Park Avenue (2005) starred her daughter and the actors Shabana Azmi, Dhritiman Chaterji, Waheeda Rehman, Rahul Bose and Soumitra Chatterjee. The film deals with a girl (Konkona Sen Sharma) who is a schizophrenic and her relations with her elder stepsister, played by Shabana Azmi.
Her next film named The Japanese Wife (2010), stars Raima Sen, Rahul Bose and Chigusa Takaku. This film focuses on two women and is based on a short story by West Bengal author Kunal Basu.
Aparna has made selective films and in the last three decades of her career, she has made only nine films.
In 2009, Sen announced her next Bengali film Iti Mrinalini, which stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Aparna Sen, Rajat Kapoor, Koushik Sen, and Priyanshu Chatterjee. Sen's last Bengali film was Paromitar Ek Din (2000). First-time screenwriter Ranjan Ghosh has co-authored Iti Mrinalini. This was the first time that Aparna Sen collaborated with any film writer or became attached to the curriculum of a film institute. The screenplay of Iti Mrinalini was an assignment in the Screenwriting syllabus at the Mumbai-based film school Whistling Woods International.[3] It was also a major first in Indian screenwriting whence any screenplay from any Indian film institute was actually filmed.[4] The film is released on July 29, 2011.
[edit]Personal life
Sen has been married three times. Her first marriage, to Sanjay Sen, was when she was quite young. Her second husband was the science writer and journalist, Mukul Sharma. They later divorced amicably. Sen is presently married to Kalyan Ray, an author and professor of English who teaches at County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey, in the United States. She has two daughters, Kamalini and Konkona—who is also an actress—and two grandchildren.
[edit]Other achievements
In 2008, Sen was elected into the International Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The highly credentialed Jury, headed by a president of international distinction, determine winners from all nominations in each award category.
From 1986 to 2005, Sen was 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. From November 2005 to December 2006, she was associated with the Bengali 24x7 infotainment channel Kolkata TV as Creative Director.
In 1986, the then-President of India bestowed the Padma Shri to Sen in recognition of her contribution to Indian cinema. Since then, she has received several lifetime achievement awards, and served on juries at film festivals around the world.
Kunika (born 1 January 1966) is a notable film actress, she was especially involved in a lot of films in villain and comic roles. She also is a singer and launched two albums, the first being mitti. She has two sons.
Kunika has carved out a niche for herself in the hearts of her publics. Since her teenage years, this versatile actress decided to make it a big on the TV screen. At the age of 16, she challenged her parents to get her married to her Prince Charming, but later she realized that it was a disaster and the marriage came to an end within two years. Then she took a job in Delhi but her friends and relatives advised her to shift to Mumbai. After doing a few serials, she came to Mumbai. She wanted to act in films and had fared well in a screen test. However, actor Hemant Birje (of Tarzan fame) refused to act with a rank newcomer like her. She went back to Delhi teary-eyed but fully determined that she would not let any one man rule her destiny. After working in sales at the Grand Intercontinental, Delhi, for about six months, she started to feel stagnated. A failed marriage at the age of 20, and going through a bitter custody battle for her son Arihant of age 6 (in 1984), she thought that she should make a fresh start and so returned to Mumbai. On the flight, she met Asrani and complimented his wife's serial Kashmakash. Soon after when she called up Manju Asrani to praise her work in Kashmakash she offered her a role in her serial. He encouraged her to speak his wife and it was Manju Asrani who gave Kunika a break. It was from here that her acting career began and she never had to look back after this. She got her portfolio done, did some PR with letters and soon began the rounds to serial makers and film producers.
Her second break also came from television when Dheeraj Kumar offered her a role in Adalat. Kunika Lal has not only displayed her talents in her acting career but has also been actively involved in social activities like AIDS awareness campaigns for almost 10 years. After that, films followed. People said she would be a great vamp because she was tall, thin and sexy. They told her that Bindu's role, Aruna Irani's role can be replaced by her in their absences. She has done 90 films in 16 years. Her 'Mona darling' role was in Mohra. That's when she decided to change her image drastically. Swabhimaan, where she played an 18-year-old mother was a breakthrough role that won her many plaudits. What she didn't get in seven years of films, she achieved a lot of popularity within three months of Swabhimaan. Then, negative roles in films like Beta, Gumraah and Khiladi followed. But then she tried to play it understated, not the typical loud dialogues. She liked to be realistic. Sometimes there are differences of opinion with Zee," says the spunky woman. She had changed her name to Mallika some time ago because someone told her she wouldn't be able to get married if she didn't. Ironically, her husband didn't really like the name Mallika, but after sometime she reverted it back to "Kunika". She along with her business partner cum architect friend Shekhar Dadarkar opened a chain of restaurants called "Ten-The Happy Bistro" in Goregaon, in suburban Mumbai. She has only two dreams in her life, the first one is to be Oprah Winfrey and the other is to become a playback singer. Her fans are sure that this gifted actress will go a long way and fulfill her long-cherished dreams in the near future. Kunika Lal is one actress who doesn’t run away from reality. She has acted in more than 80 Hindi films and was a prominent face in the popular television shows like Swabhimaan and Kittie Party. She was last seen in Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar (2006).
[edit]Filmography
Kunika began her film career at the age of 24 in a 1988 horror movie named Kabrastan along with notable actors Raja Murad and "TARZAN" hero Hemant Birje. She is mainly involved in negative roles and bold scenes in bulk of her movies, the hot scene with Milind Gunaji in Fareb, as lady cop with Bob Christo in Gumrah, against Sunil Shetty in a song with green saree in film Judge Mujrim (1997), and in a very big shot with Tarun Arora in Men Not Allowed. She has acted in about 50 Hindi films. She danced with Akshay Kumar in Khiladi in the song tu shama main parwana tera.
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunika
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