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Raima Sen talks of her different films. Her biggest challenge? Learning to do housework.
- By Jyoti Kalsi, Gulf News Report
- Published: 01:03 December 16, 2007
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- Raima Sen is the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen and has inherited her grandmother's looks and talent.
Raima Sen talks of her different films. Her biggest challenge? Learning to do housework.
Raima Sen is the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen and has inherited her grandmother's looks and talent. The young actress was at DIFF for the red carpet gala screening of Aids Jaago and spoke to us about her current projects.
Excerpts:
Did you have any reservations about playing a village girl in a movie about Aids?
Not at all. I had worked with Zoya Akhtar in Honeymoon Travels and when she approached me for this film Migration I saw it as a great opportunity to work with Mira Nair and to do something about an issue of global importance.
What was it like to work with Aparna Sen in The Japanese Wife?
It was fabulous. The film is a beautiful love story about an Indian villager (played by Rahul Bose) and a Japanese woman, who are pen pals and fall in love and get married without ever meeting. I play a widow with a nine-year-old son, who lives in the villager's house and covertly loves him. It was a difficult role because I had to develop the right body language to play a mature woman and mother.
The most difficult part was learning to do housework.
I have never even made my own bed, but in the movie I had to sweep floors, cut vegetables and do other housework.
I diligently practised and have managed to look quite comfortable with it on screen. Aparna Sen is a perfectionist but she is soft spoken and gives you space to learn at your own pace. Two months before we began shooting, she held a 15-day workshop where she described every location and situation to us while we rehearsed the scenes, which made the actual shoot very easy.
What are the other projects you are working on?
I am doing Rituparno Ghosh's next movie Khela, where I play a costume designer and a comedy about good gangsters called C Company with Tusshar Kapoor.
Do you prefer art films to mainstream cinema?
I have been juggling between Bengali and Hindi films because Bengali films offered me roles with more substance, great scripts and good directors. But after Honeymoon Travels I have been getting good offers from Bollywood and I want to focus on those now.
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