On December 21, a special screening of Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen was organised by Prabha Khaitan Foundation at PVR INOX South City, with several prominent faces in attendance. Directed by Suman Ghosh (pictured with Aparna Sen and Kalyan Ray), the 80-minute docu-film focuses not only on Sen’s oeuvre as actor and filmmaker but also examines various aspects of her identity as activist, magazine editor, daughter, wife and mother
All photos by Soumyajit Dey“We tend to celebrate people only after they are gone. I want to celebrate icons while they are with us. Sundeep Bhutoria (managing trustee, Prabha Khaitan Foundation) has been a friend of mine for a long time and has always offered assistance. The response the film has received tells me that we had the right idea,” said Ghosh (pictured with Kaushik Basu and Aparna Sen)
Numerous luminaries graced the screening, including Rituparna Sengupta, Churni Ganguly, Kaushik Ganguly and Tanusree Shankar. Parama, which has made quite the splash at film festivals, was also featured at the recently concluded Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF)
Indrani Mukherjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and Sohag Sen were among the ones braving the winter rain and pre-Christmas traffic to arrive at the screening of a unique film, where the director takes his subject to some of the locations where she shot her iconic films
Rajatava Dutta, Indraneil Sengupta and Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee were also among those present at South City to watch the film, which hits theatres on January 3