24-561: Aparna Sen ( née Dasgupta , Ôporna Shen ) is an Indian film director , screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema . She has received several accolades as an actress and filmmaker, including nine National Film Awards , five Filmfare Awards East and thirteen Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards . For her contribution in the field of arts, the Government of India honoured her with Padma Shri ,
48-1037: A Mrinal Sen film where she played the part of Monica. Sen has been an imminent part of the Bengali film industry, playing the lead in popular films like Basanta Bilap (1973) and Memsaheb (1972) amongst others. Sen has also been a part of Hindi films such as Imaan Dharam (1977), Ek Din Achanak (1989), and Ghaath (2000). 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 . In 2019, Sen acted in prominent Bengali films including Bohomaan and Basu Poribar . In 2009, Sen announced her next Bengali film Iti Mrinalini , which starred Konkona Sen Sharma , Aparna Sen, Rajat Kapoor , Kaushik Sen , and Priyanshu Chatterjee . First-time screenwriter Ranjan Ghosh co-authored Iti Mrinalini . This
72-501: A college, Chaitali quickly befriends Rashmani's ghost. Since Chaitali shared a lot of facial features with Rashmani, Somalata believes that Rashmani had reincarnated as Chaitali, so she hands over Rashmani's jewellery box to her. The film now progresses to the year 1971 with the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War . Rashmani's lover Banwarilal (alias Benu) repeatedly crossed the border to provide supplies to
96-445: A ghost in her afterlife. To keep her jewellery away from the hands of her greedy relatives, Rashmani's ghost hands them over to Somalata. As time progresses, the family's accumulated wealth steadily decreases due to the male members of the family refusing to work for a living in order to protect their aristocratic heritage, exacerbated by the cost of legal fees incurred in resolving the property dispute between Rashmani's two brothers and
120-464: A play by Mahesh Elkunchwar , the film examines the life of three middle-aged unmarried friends played by Aparna Sen, Shabana Azmi and Lillete Dubey . In 2021, she directed her 3rd Hindi film The Rapist , starring her daughter Konkona Sen Sharma and Arjun Rampal . In her interview with the Firstpost , she said that The Rapist will be a "hard-hitting drama that examines how much of society
144-435: Is centred around the a wooden box containing 500 bhari s of gold ornaments kept sequestered away. Its original owner is Rashmani, the daughter of a Bengali Hindu zamindar family from Faridpur , who was married off at the age of 11 & was tragically widowed within a few months of her marriage. She was extremely possessive of her jewellery & utilised her hot temper to keep others away from her jewellery box. Following
168-616: Is responsible for producing rapists." The film is nominated for Kim Jiseok award at 26th Busan International Film Festival to be held in October 2021. Sen has served on juries at film festivals around the world. In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival . In 2008, she was elected into the International Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards . In 2013, she headed
192-508: Is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname , the given name , or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name . The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah ) will persist to adulthood in
216-461: Is the masculine form. The term née , having feminine grammatical gender , can be used to denote a woman's surname at birth that has been replaced or changed. In most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used to denote a man's surname at birth that has subsequently been replaced or changed. The diacritic mark (the acute accent ) over
240-639: The Mukti Bahini . After he was caught and shot dead by the Pakistani army , Chaitali on being advised by Rashmani's ghost , donates all the jewellery in that box to the cause of the Mukti Bahini and later Chaitali also learns about Rafiq and Somalata's past from the last few scripts of poems written by Rafiq which she finds in an abandoned house where she used to meet with her lover "Benu".She hands those letters to Somalata anonymously making her realize
264-456: The e is considered significant to its spelling, and ultimately its meaning, but is sometimes omitted. According to Oxford University 's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , the terms are typically placed after the current surname (e.g., " Margaret Thatcher , née Roberts" or " Bill Clinton , né Blythe"). Since they are terms adopted into English (from French), they do not have to be italicized , but they often are. In Polish tradition ,
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#1732798191658288-440: The gambling addiction of Chandan's elder brother. In midst of all of these difficulties, Somalata was able to keep the jewellery box hidden away, under the ever-watchful eye of Rashmani's ghost. Finally, she secretly arranges for some money by pawning some of the hidden jewellery, and with that money she sets up a business of selling saris , despite opposition from her father-in-law and brother-in-law. Somalata effectively manages
312-559: The partition of Bengal , she migrated alongside her brothers' family to a suburb called Nababganj located near Ichapore in West Bengal . In 1949, Somalata, the daughter of a poor family, enters the household as the wife of Chandan, the younger of the 2 sons of Rashmani's younger brother. Due to not being greedy for jewellery, Rashmani develops a liking for her. However, a few months after Somalata's marriage, Rashmani dies. Due to excessive attachment towards her jewellery, Rashmani becomes
336-577: The age of 73. Sen is a niece of Bengali poet Jibanananda Das . Sen spent her childhood in Hazaribagh and Kolkata and had her schooling at Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata . She studied for her B.A. in English at Presidency College , but did not complete the degree. Sen's foray into the world of entertainment happened when she was fifteen and was photographed by Brian Brake for the well-known photo from his 1960 Monsoon series of photographs;
360-694: The country's fourth highest civilian award. Sen was born in a Bengali Baidya family in Kolkata. Her family originally hailed from Cox's Bazar in Chittagong District (now in Bangladesh). Her father was the veteran critic and filmmaker Chidananda Dasgupta . Her mother Supriya Dasgupta was a costume designer and earned the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for Chidananda's directorial venture Amodini (1994), at
384-435: The depth of love which Rafiq had for her in the past. In the end Somalata finally realized her feelings which she had in the past which causes Rashmani's soul to finally have peace and to be liberated from the state of being a ghost. Aparna Sen thought to make this film in 1993. But she was not getting the right production house to finance the film. That is why she had to delay the project so long. Sen told– When I first read
408-739: The editor of the magazine Paroma launched by the Saradha Group. Following the Saradha Group financial scandal , Paroma ran into trouble. It finally closed down on 14 April 2013. Sen and her editorial team launched a new magazine called Prathama Ekhon , which was short-lived. In 1987, the then President of India, Giani Zail Singh bestowed the Padma Shri on Sen in recognition of her contribution to Indian cinema. Since then, she has received several lifetime achievement awards. Birth name#Maiden and married names A birth name
432-501: The jury of the second Ladakh International Film Festival. From 1986 to 2005, Sen was the 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 2011 she took charge as
456-405: The normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some reasons for changes of a person's name include middle names , diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and gender transition . The French and English-adopted née is the feminine past participle of naître , which means "to be born". Né
480-587: The photo appeared on the cover of Life . 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 ( lit. ' Three Daughters ' ) directed by Satyajit Ray (who was a longtime friend of her father's). She went on to appear in up to four films made by the director including, Jana Aranya , and Pikoo . Four years after her first film, in 1965, Sen acted in Akash Kusum,
504-665: The shop (which she named after Rashmani in her honour) and was able to return the pawned jewellery. When Somalata came to know about the existence of Chandan's mistress, she complained about it to Rashmani's ghost, who then encouraged her to forge an extra-marital affair. Somalata slowly falls in love with a Bengali Muslim man named Rafiq who was a poet, but she later abandoned him out of conscience and consummated her marriage completely with Chandan, heartbroken Rafiq committed suicide. Failing to make Somalata unchaste, Rashmani stopped visiting her and started meeting with Somalata's daughter Chaitali. Modernist & pursuing higher education in
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#1732798191658528-686: The term z domu (literally meaning "of the house", de domo in Latin ) may be used, with rare exceptions, meaning the same as née . Goynar Baksho Goynar Baksho ( transl. The Jewellery Box ) is a 2013 Bengali-language Indian horror comedy film directed by Aparna Sen . The film is based on a novel Goynar Baksho and a short story Rashmonir Sonadana , both written by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and published in Desh magazine. The film premiered in Kolkata on 12 April 2013. The story
552-437: Was released on 29 July 2011. In 2013, her film Goynar Baksho (The Jewellery Box) was released depicting three generations of women and their relationship to a box of jewels. It ran to packed houses and won critical acclaim from reviewers and critics. Thereafter, in 2015, Arshinagar , an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet was released. In 2017, Sonata —an English film written and directed by Sen—was released. Adapted from
576-594: Was the first time that 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 . It was also a major first in Indian screenwriting, as the first time that any screenplay from an Indian film institute was actually filmed. The film
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