Aparna Sen

Aparna Sen

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Aparna Sen Profile

  • Name:
  • Aparna Sen
  • Born:
  • October 25, 1945
  • Father:
  • Chidananda Dasgupta
  • Mother:
  • Supriya Dasgupta
  • Spouse:
  • Kalyan Ray

Aparna Sen Biography

Aparna Sen is a critically well acclaimed Bengali director, script writer and actress. She has won numerous National Film Awards and eight international film festival awards till now. She debut as an actress with the movie, Teen Kanya in 1961 at the age of 16. The movie was directed by Satyajit Ray. In 1965, she worked in Mrinal Sen's Akash Kusum and later became a part of Bengali film industry. She has also acted in a few Hindi movies of which Imaan Dharam (1977) is a noted one. Noted film actress, Konkana Sen is the daughter of Aparna. Konkana won national award for best actress for the movie directed by her mother, Mr and Mrs. Iyer.

 

In 1981, 36 Chowringhee Lane, her debut movie as a director helped her to fetch National Film Award for Best Direction and National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English. In 1984, Panoma gave her the third National award. Her movies have won regional best at National awards two times – Yugant in 1995 and Paromitar Ek Din, both in Bengali. Mr and Mrs Iyer gave her second National Film Award for Best Direction in the year 2001. This movie also earned her National Film Award for Best Screenplay and Best Direction. In 2005, 15 Park Avenue earned her a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English. Apart from the movies mentioned above she has also written the screenplay and directed the movies – Sati, The Japanese Wife, Iti Mrinalini and Goynar Baksho. She has been bit choosy and directed only 10 films in her career.

 

Aparna Sen was born in Kolkata to a Bengali family as the daughter of film critic and director, Chidananda Dasgupta. Her mother Supriya Dasgupta is the cousin of noted poet Jibanananda Das. She entered film field as an actress and later became a successful screenwriter and director. She has married thrice. The first two marriages ended in divorce and at present she is married to Kalyan Ray, an author and English professor.

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Updated: January 24, 2014

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