Naman Ramachandran Veteran Indian director and actor Aparna Sen‘s new project “Her Indian Summer” is set to be developed as an Indo-U.K.
co-production, it was revealed during a recent London retrospective of her work. The film, a mixed-race love story set against the backdrop of the 1947 partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan, is being produced by Kolkata-based Indian producer-director Aritra Sen and Los Angeles-based British writer-director Alex Harvey’s Big Bazaar Films.
Sen came to notice as an actor with the “Samapti” segment in Oscar winner Satyajit Ray’s “Three Daughters” (1961). She acted in several more films by Ray and also worked with Indian cinema greats Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Rituparno Ghosh.
Her acting credits also include Merchant-Ivory films “The Guru” (1969) and “Bombay Talkie” (1970). “36 Chowringhee Lane” (1981), Sen’s directorial debut, won her best director at India’s National Film Awards.
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