Top 10 Bengali Films By The Director Aparna Sen

Aparna Sen A vetern filmmaker and actress, Aparna Sen has bee >> Read More... is an actress, director, and screenwriter of films. She was born on 25 October 1945. She has received several awards for her cinema. She has been awarded Padma Shri. Here is the list of films directed by her.

1. Goynar Baksho

The film Goynar Baksho is about a woman who is a ghost. The film shows the lives and the social roles of three generations of women. The main character of this film is a widow. She hides her wedding jewelry. Her family loses ancestral lands. Now they have shifted to India. When her niece-in-law pawns the diamonds for her husband's business, the ghost of the widow visits her. She brings the second niece-in-law and her boyfriend together. The spirit also finally involves her daughter in politics. The 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and the Mukti Bahini insurgents' fight for independence are also shown in this film.

2. Parama

The film Parama is about the life of a woman named Paroma. She is married. She is a 40-year-old woman. She wants to pose for a magazine photo shoot. Rahul is a foreign photojournalist. He finds her photos. Now her life is forever changed. Her husband rejects her because of Rahul's dishonesty. Then she becomes mentally ill. Her family forgives her. Still, she does not want her previous life. The family agrees to let her return. This happens when a doctor asks for psychiatric therapy for her. She finally remembers the name of a flower that she had previously forgotten. This means she is recovering.

3. The Japanese Wife

The film The Japanese Wife is about the love story of two people over letters. Snehamoy Chatterjee is an Indian man and Miyage is a Japanese woman. They are pen friends. They talk over letters. They even marry through letters. They never meet in real life. Their relationship remains loyal and strong. It has been seventeen years. One day, Sandhya, a widow comes to stay with him with her son, Poltu who is eight years old. The boy and Snehamoy become close in a father-son relationship. He remains loyal to Miyage. She is suffering from cancer. He wants her to be cured. He goes to the doctor. While returning he catches a cold and suffers from pneumonia due to the storm. He dies. His wife visits him in a white sari and shaved head.

4. Sati

The film Sati is about the life of a young Brahmin girl. She has a bad horoscope. The film is set in the year 1828. Horoscope at that time is of great importance. According to her horoscope, she will become a widow at a young age. That means whoever will marry her, will die soon. Also, she will die because of Sati. It was a common practice at that time. That means she will be burnt alive. To remove this fate, her family decides to marry her to a banyan tree.

5. 36 Chowringhee Lane

The film 36 Chowringhee Lane is the first film directed by Aparna Sen. Violet Stoneham an Anglo-Indian woman. She lives peacefully at 36 Chowringhee Lane, Calcutta. Eddie is her brother. He is sick and stays in a nursing home. Rosemary is her niece. She gets married. Now Violet becomes alone. The cat is her only companion. She teaches Shakespeare. But her students are not interested. One day she meets Nandita, her ex-student, and her boyfriend, Samaresh. She invites them. Now Samaresh wants to work in her apartment writing novels. They become friends. But circumstances again pull her to be alone.

6. Yugant

The film Yugant is about the life of a couple. Deepak and Anasuya are estranged couple. They live separately. One in Cuttack and the other in Bombay. They meet after a long time of eighteen months. They meet at a fishing village. It was their honeymoon destination. They are separated due to their career. But they find that their hearts are still close to each other. They want to live together. The film shows the reality of struggling for career and personal lives.

7. 15 Park Avenue

The film 15 Park Avenue is about the life of Meethi. She has Schizophrenia. Anu and their mother take care of her. She is her elder sister. She is divorced. She works as a professor. Meethi is not married. But she thinks that she is married to her ex-fiancé, Joydeep, and that they have five children. These are all her daydreams because of her illness. She thinks that she with her husband and children lives in imaginary 15 Park Avenue, Kolkata. One day when they go on a vacation, they meet real Joydeep in Bhutan. He is married and has two children. Meethi does not recognize him but becomes friends with him. When Joydeep comes to know about her condition, he decides to help her.

8. Paromitar Ek Din

The film Paromitar Ek Din is about the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. It shows loneliness and friendship. Sanaka is the mother-in-law of Paromita. They have built a strong bond between them. But one day, Paramita’s marriage to Sanaka’s son breaks down. Now the two women cannot remain close to each other. Paromita marries again to another man. She starts her new life. But Sanaka becomes lonely now. She becomes ill. Paramita comes to know about her illness. She decides to take care of her on her deathbed.

9. Ghawre Bairey Aaj

The film Ghawre Baire Aaj is about a love triangle. Sandip is a Hindu and nationalist professor. Nikhilesh was his childhood friend. He is a liberal editor. He lives with his wife, Brinda. She is a young Dalit girl. After a long time, Sandip meets them. Now their relationship becomes complex. When both involve in love with one girl. This film is based on the journalist Gauri Lankesh. This film premiered in Delhi on 18 July 2019 in the Jagran Film Festival 10^th edition.

10. Iti Mrinalini

The film Iti Mrinalini is about an unfinished letter. This film shows several stages of love. It gives a lesson that nothing is in control of our lives. Mrinalini is an aging actress. She writes a suicide note. She decides to take sleeping pills. She destroys all her memories. It includes her photos, letters, newspaper cuttings, magazines, and many more. As she checks them, she remembers her memories of love, friendship, success, failures, betrayals, etc. She then tears her suicide note. She moves out of her house with her dog to take a walk. Then something shocking happens.