Not many know this but Sushmita Sen speaks fluent Bengali with her parents, and has been pining to do a Bengali film for a very long time. She did a Bengali film, Mahesh Manjrekar's It Was Raining That Night in 2005, a remake of the director's Astitwa, which never got released. More recently Sushmita was all set to star in Rupali Chatterjee's Jodi Emon Hoto. That project is now as good as shelved. Finally the Bengali project that Sushmita has been craving to do has materialized. One of Bangla cinema's top directors Srijit Mukherjee who started his career with the hugely successful Bangla film Autograph and then went on to make other milestones like Hemlock Society and Jaatishwar, has signed Sushmita for his next film. Shedding light on the project Srijit says, "It's a film called Nirbaak (speechless). It compresses together four love stories connected by the theme of silence.
- 6/18/2014
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Many Tabu fans consider her performance in Mahesh Manjrekar.s Astitva to be her finest. It was just a matter of time before the director teamed up again with his favourite actress. Now ten years after Astitva, Tabu is set to reunite with Manjrekar for a powerful unconventional film titled White which takes the theme of a middleclass Indian woman.s right to assert her identity and her sexuality even further than Astitva.Apparently, in White, the woman not only leaves her uncaring and insensitive husband, but also has an affair with a much younger man.Manjrekar says, .White takes the story of the Indian middleclass wife, her desires and ambitions much deeper than Astitva. The thought of being able to make this film finally gives me a high as a director.It is a bolder look at the feelings, dreams and nightmares of an Indian housewife than anything attempted on screen.
- 4/22/2010
- Filmicafe
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