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Aparna Sen
Directing 36 Chowringhee Lane and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, alongside a major Bengali acting career.
36 Chowringhee Lane · Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
- Born
- 25 October 1945
- Birthplace
- Kolkata, India
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Aparna Sen
Aparna Sen moved from screen performance to films attentive to women’s lives, social divisions and private acts of courage.
Early life
Cultural family
Her father Chidananda Dasgupta was a film critic and director.
Education
Studied English at Presidency College in Kolkata without completing the degree.
Career
- 1961
Acting debut
Appeared in Satyajit Ray's Teen Kanya.
- 1960s–1970s
Bengali screen career
Established herself as a leading actor.
- 1981
Directing debut
36 Chowringhee Lane earned a National Film Award for direction.
- 2000s onward
Writer-director
Continued socially engaged filmmaking and collaborations with her daughter.
Selected work
36 Chowringhee Lane
An ageing Anglo-Indian teacher experiences loneliness and exploitation.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
Strangers cross religious boundaries amid communal violence.
Iti Mrinalini
An actor looks back on the choices of her life.
Beyond work
Magazine editing
Edited the Bengali women's magazine Sananda.
Family
Her daughter Konkona Sen Sharma also became an actor and filmmaker.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Aparna Sen interview ↗Photo: Biswarup Ganguly. CC BY 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
