The language of love
30 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments
For her next feature film, Aparna Sen is getting "a Japanese girl" to play Rahul Bose's love interest. The Japanese Wife — or Japani Bouma in Bengali — will be an English film with some Bengali dialogues. "It is based on a story by author Kunal Basu. The Bengali dialogues will be subtitled in English and the English portions will be subtitled for the Bengali audience in the interiors… I think now is the time for multi-lingual films," Sen said on Wednesday.
Starring Rahul Bose, Raima Sen and an actress to play the Japanese girl who is yet to be finalised, the film will be shot in Japan during the Cherry Blossom festival, in Calcutta, and in the Sunderbans. Rahul, for whom this will be the third film with Sen, plays an arithmetic teacher in the Sunderbans who doesn't know English. "It's a beautiful and incredible love story. There are two women in his life. With one he has marriage but no domesticity, with the other he has domesticity but no marriage," said Sen.
"The love between the teacher and the Japanese girl grows through letters. And both have to consult dictionaries. Rahul looks up a Bengali-to-English dictionary, and the Japanese girl consults a Japanese-to-English one," added the film-maker, who starts shooting in March-end and hopes to wrap up by June.
Raima plays "a village girl" in the film. "I will be attending workshops with Rahul and Aparna Sen in Mumbai," she said from Mumbai, "very excited" about her debut in a Sen film. ….read more
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